scholarly journals Food Retailing, Supermarkets, and Food Security: Highlights from Latin America*

Food Security ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 322-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Arda
Author(s):  
Constanza Gutiérrez-Gómez

Abstract The livestock sector faces an important challenge in the medium and long term since it must satisfy an increasing demand for animal products as a result of the increase in population and the world economy but safeguarding natural resources and at the same time minimizing the environmental contamination, especially the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributed to livestock husbandry. For Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), this becomes more relevant given the importance of the sector for the food security of rural communities, particularly for small-scale producers. In this manuscript, we address the main challenges of LAC in this context, from a global perspective that includes the demographic, economic, cultural, and environmental effects. The biggest global challenge for the LAC livestock sector for the coming decades is how to satisfy the growing human demand for animal protein in a sustainable way maintaining the food security of their communities. The efforts to achieve these goals require focusing on improving the efficiency of both animal husbandry and production systems. Therefore, it is necessary to implement technologies of sustainable intensification and it is urgent that those who make political decisions become aware of these issues.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. e1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia ◽  
Jorge Feregrino ◽  
Pablo Isla
Keyword(s):  

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ignacio Rodríguez ◽  
Gustavo Anríquez ◽  
José Luis Riveros

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Mahlknecht ◽  
Ramon Gonzalez ◽  
Frank Loge

<p>Understanding water-energy-food interrelatedness and interdependencies (WEF Nexus) over environmental resources can result in improved water, energy, and food security by integrating management and governance across sectors and scales, reducing tradeoffs, and building synergies, overall promoting sustainability and a transition to green economy. One of the most relevant research areas on the Nexus is the development of indexes to assess the performance of the three sectors and their interlinkages. These tools are essential to understanding the Nexus concept and to determine areas for improvement, especially in developing countries. To evaluate the WEF Nexus for a developing region, namely Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), two approaches are proposed to evaluate water, energy and food security at intra-country level. First, a composite diagram was developed for LAC countries and subregions that considers three key indicators per sector: availability, access, and sustainability of the sector’s resources. Second, an analysis was performed for selected countries using internal factors that represent the most important interrelationships that exist within the WEF Nexus. The results show that access to food in LAC is relatively low in comparison to other developing regions. Regarding renewable energy sources, with the exception of some countries, the region’s share (including hydroelectricity) in electricity production is low. Water resources represent the most vulnerable sector for food and energy development of the countries (water for food, and water for energy), as well as the need to implement green infrastructure for sustainable water production (food for water).</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
NFN Syahyuti

<p>Massive land grabbing is a global phenomenon that takes place widely by involving cross-country and continental actors. However, this approach to agricultural development with this pattern is less in line with agrarian reform, because it produces inequality, conflict, and marginalization of small farmers. Various studies report the massive land grabbing especially in African countries, Latin America and also Asia. Until now, the phenomenon of land grabbing that has such serious impacts is not openly discussed by academics, and is often covered as an inter-state investment dynamic. This paper is a scientific review derived from various studies and reports, which are constructed into land grabbing character, its causal factors, the resulting impacts, and the urgency of solutions to suppress its spread. The results of the study show that in Indonesia this is also the case, and has begun to show the impacts that are less in line with the vision and mission of national agricultural development, especially the threat to the achievement of food security and farmers' welfare. In the future, the phenomenon of land grabbing should be used as an open agenda and find solutions by integrating with agrarian reform planning.</p><p>Abstrak</p><p>Akuisisi lahan secara besar-besaran merupakan sebuah fenomena global yang berlangsung secara luas dengan melibatkan aktor lintas negara dan benua. Namun demikian, pendekatan pembangunan pertanian dengan pola ini kurang sejalan dengan reforma agraria, karena menghasilkan ketimpangan, konflik, serta peminggiran petani kecil. Beragam studi melaporkan masifnya akuisisi lahan terutama di negara-negara Afrika, Amerika Latin dan juga Asia. Sampai saat ini, fenomena akuisisi lahan yang memiliki dampak serius tersebut tidak dibicarakan secara terbuka oleh kalangan akademisi, dan seringkali ditutupi sebagai sebuah dinamika investasi antar negara belaka. Tulisan ini merupakan sebuah review ilmiah yang berasal dari berbagai hasil studi dan laporan, yang dikontruksi menjadi karakteristik akuisisi lahan, faktor penyebabnya, dampak yang dihasilkan, serta urgensi solusi untuk menekan penyebarannya. Hasil kajian menunjukan bahwa di Indonesia hal ini juga berlangsung, dan telah mulai memperlihatkan berbagai dampak yang kurang sejalan dengan visi dan misi pembangunan pertanian nasional, terutama ancamannya terhadap pencapaian ketahanan pangan dan kesejahteraan petani. Ke depan, semestinya fenomena akuisisi lahan harus dijadikan sebagai agenda terbuka dan dicarikan solusinya dengan mengintegrasikan dengan perencanaan reforma agraria.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-871
Author(s):  
Anita Z. Rakhman

The activities of the United Nations in the 21st century, as in the earlier period, are undoubtedly devoted to protection and promotion of human rights. It promotes the realization of fundamental human rights through specialized agencies in various fields taking in account concerns and needs of vulnerable groups of population, in particular indigenous peoples. The World Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), in its turn, develops policies and implements strategies and programs to guarantee food security and the right to food to aboriginal people around the world, including in Latin America.


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