Nutritious diet, a right or a privilege?

Abstract

Food security is a right, but in poor countries such as Ecuador, it becomes a privilege because unemployment, the high cost of the basic family basket and the vital family basket limit access to nutritious food. Pearson’s statistic was applied to determine if there is a correlation between the study variables, where it was obtained that there is a direct linear correlation between the percentage of undernourished people, GDP and unemployment in Ecuador of 0.28 and 0.31 respectively, and a direct inverse relationship with the value of the basic family food basket of -0.87; currently Ecuador has a 12.4% rate of undernutrition compared to its average for the period 2001-2009, which is due to the implementation of the School Food Program in 1999.