FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY: IMPACTS, IMPLICATIONS AND

OPPORTUNITIES FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Date and Place

Index

I. State of Food and NutritionSecurity

II.A Policy agenda for Food and Nutrition Security

What’s Food Security?

“There exists food security when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”

World Food Summit, 1996

Evolution of hunger in LAC

World:925 Millions of people

LAC: 52.5 Millions of people

A favorable scenario for food production

Food production in LAC

Wheat Maize Rice TotalChange (%)

2011/12-2010/11 2010/11 2011/12 2010/11 2011/12 2010/11 2011/12 2010/11 2011/12 TotalSouth America 26.620 24.276 89.407 90.058 15.787 17.854 143.521 146.220 1,9%Argentina 15.800 13.410 22.677 22.900 843 1.170 46.660 46.436 -0,5%Brazil 6.037 5.646 56.060 56.100 7.813 9.121 72.172 73.600 2,0%

Central America and Caribbean 9 9 4.285 4.482 1.727 1.773 6.431 6.713 4,4%Mexico 3.680 4.045 22.394 20.400 167 153 34.026 31.812 -6,5%Latin America and the Caribbean 30.309 28.330 116.086 114.940 17.681 19.780 183.978 184.745 0,4%

Cereals production in LAC, 1000 tons

World’s Cereal MarketsMillion tonnes

Challenges to food access

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5

10

15

2007/07 2008/01 2008/07 2009/01 2009/07 2010/01 2010/07 2011/01 Dic

Headline Food

*/ Weigthed average using information for 10 countries.Source: FAO-RLC

y-o-y % changeHeadline and Food inflation rate in LAC, 2007-2011*

Poverty in Latin America: Impacts of higher food prices on the poorest

Percentage Number (Millions) 2010 2011 Var. (pp %) 2010 2011 Var.Poverty 31,4 % 30,4 % -1,0 177 174 -3,0Extreme poverty 12,3 % 12,8 % 0,5 70 73 3,0

Change in poverty rates in LA, 2011 vs. 2010

PercentageNumber

Fuente: ECLAC, 2011.

Poverty Extreme povertyPoverty Extreme poverty

Nutritional transition in LAC

II: A Policy agenda for FSN

Governance mechanisms on FSN

Increase investments on a more sustainable agriculture

Transform food production and consumption patterns

Governance mechanisms on global and regional levels

Globally: CFS; G-20:UUNN Regionally: CELAC; UNASUR; MERCOSUR; CAN;

SICA; CARICOM; ALBA; SELA; ALADI

LAC Hunger Free Initiative 2025 Intra-regional food trade Animal, forest & fish health, and food safety

Investment and Sustainability

Greater public and private productive investment in family farming

Adapting agriculture to climate change

Fostering local food markets

Improving property rights over land and water

Food access and consumption patterns

Social protection systems

Labor markets

Consumption of traditional food

School meals and education on food safety

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