Reflections on Food Security

Abstract

Written by an official from CORANTIOQUIA's Natural Resources Deputy Directorate, this article develops the four minimum conditions of food security defined by FAO, contrasting their widespread fulfillment in developed countries with persistent gaps in developing countries like Colombia. The author examines the goals of the 1992 Rome Summit and their follow-up at the Johannesburg Summit, noting the failure to meet hunger- and child-malnutrition-reduction targets, and analyzes the causes of the imbalance between food producers and consumers in Latin America. The text grounds the right to food in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and concludes with a call to strengthen sustainable agriculture, fishing, and forestry as the basis for nutritional well-being and social development.