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Learn 2 - Food security in Mexico: What are we doing about it?
After a wh*** week of intense research about food security in Mexico, this are my findings.
Especifically in my community, Monterrey city in the state of Nuevo Leon, northeast of Mexico (border state with USA), there are none projects aiming to takle the food security problem, like there isn't one. Nuevo Leon is the third state with the largest GDP in the country and has the second place in food access. Because of that, the goverment - or the society - doesn't give much attention to the food security issue. There is a research paper (http://www.respyn.uanl.mx/vii/4/ensayos/seguridad.htm 2006) from the Public Health and Nutrition faculty of the state university that tryies to expose the issue and how the state needs to start developing public policies to adress it. It also expose the fact that there's no specific indicators to measure the food security in the state.
I also found an article dated form febrary this year, that says that the state goverment is going to start mor programs to create more food access for the poors and rural communities in the state (http://www.milenio.com/node/374913) this new importance of the issue comes from the increase of the food poverty rate, that has triplicated since the year 2000. The last measurement that I found about food acces and poverty in the state is from the 2007, and was about how there were 151,174 people in the state who suffered from food poverty. But, because of the last year's economic crisis, that number has - certainly - increased.
About the food security in Mexico, I found a lot of doc**ents, but most of them were from institutions in the United Staes. Some of them mention how the NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) is affecting the food security of Mexico. This is happening because NAFTA includes the export-import of agriculture products. One of those is the Maize (basic food in México). The import of maize from the states is increasing the price of the maize in mexico, which means that most of the poor people in México can't afford the maize to produce tortillas, tamales, etc.
Another interesting doc**ent that I found was one of Mexico's enviroment department(*). In this doc**ent there's a presentation about how climate change is affecting the agriculture in mexico, making it harder in some states to grow food, and how is predicted to be in 20 years from now. It also presents some action ideas on the subject.
http://www.momentumplanet.com/food/collapse-food-security-mexico
http://www.worldfoodprize.org/assets/YouthInstitute/06proceedings/A...
http://mexico.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/05/29/food-security-in-me...
http://www.sagarpa.gob.mx/desarrolloRural/Doc**ents/cambioclimatico...(*)
But even though I found some info, I still feel that food security is not a big issue in mexico.There aren't public policies about it strong enough to stop worrying: we are just living by the day, watting for some food catasthrophe to occur to realize that we have to start worrying about it.
Here are some links about the millenium development goals in Mexico and the Mexico's country profile in by the FAO and another link from the World Watch Institute.
http://www.objetivosdelmilenio.org.mx/
http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&iso3=MEX&a...
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