The challenges of measuring food security and sovereignty in the Yucatán Peninsula

Dios, Héctor Cálix de; Putnam, Heather; Dzul, Santos Alvarado; Godek, Wendy; Kissmann, Susanne; Pierre, Jean Luckson; Gliessman, Steve

doi:10.1080/09614524.2014.884540

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“…From a conceptual point of view, food security is supported by 4 pillars: food availability, access, use, and stability 4 . Availability refers to the physical supply of food and is determined by the levels of production, reserves, and trade; access refers to the economic and physical capacity to acquire food, which also depends on the market and not on availability alone; the dimension of use encompasses biological forms that provide most nutrients to the body; and stability connotes the balance of the other 3 determinants over time 4 .…”

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“…According to FAO, indigenous and peasant populations are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation; economic and political marginalization; and activities promoting economic development that adversely affect the ecosystems, lifestyle, cultural heritage, and nutritional status of these populations 4 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this regard, the Forum for the Food Sovereignty of 2007 has defined food sovereignty as the right of persons to healthy and culturally appropriate production through ecologically sustainable and rational methods and to define their own food and agricultural systems. Consequently, it can be inferred that food security represents a set of goals to be achieved, while food sovereignty implies an approach to achieve food security 4 .…”

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confidence: 99%

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[ARTÍCULO RETRACTADO]: Seguridad alimentaria en poblaciones indígenas y campesinas: una revisión sistemática

Restrepo-Arango

Gutiérrez-Builes

Ríos-Osório

2018

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Food security and the vulnerability among indigenous and peasant populations has become a topic of interest to public health all around the world, leading to the investigation about measurement, classification and factors that determine it. This systematic review aims to describe the situation of food security in indigenous and peasant communities, and the methods used for evaluation. The literature search was performed on the Pub Med (5), ScienceDirect (221) and Scopus (377) databases searching for publications between 2004 and 2015, a total of 603 items were located with the search engines. At the end of the screening process and after adding the items found in the gray literature, 25 papers were obtained to write the review. In the 11 years evaluated between 2004 and 2015, scientific activity around the theme was poor with just 4.54% of the publications on this subject, but for 2011 the percentage increased to 13 publications, 63%. Various factors that influence the development of food insecurity are climate change, the diversity of agriculture, globalization and market westernization.

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Section: R E T R a C T E D A R T I C L E Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Restrepo-Arango

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2018

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“…Leatherman et al [ 21 ] found a relationship between low milpa production and deficiencies of vitamins A and C, and Zn in Yucatán. Also in Yucatán, Calix de Dios et al [ 67 ] showed that the milpa provided a little over six months of food self-sufficiency to the majority of households. Other studies have shown the advantage of polycropping systems for improving nutrition [ 7 , 68 , 69 ].…”

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“…While this study focused on two case study locations, the use of the milpa is decreasing across Mexico, and we showed how this affects communities’ food security, food sovereignty, and nutritional self-sufficiency. The role of the milpa for food security is recognized [ 18 , 67 , 74 , 82 ], but this is, according to our knowledge, the first report of the nutritional value of a milpa system in terms of how many persons it can feed per area. The results will vary among locations, given the diversity of milpa systems [ 11 ].…”

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The importance of the traditional milpa in food security and nutritional self-sufficiency in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico

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Around 30% of global food is produced by smallholder farmers, yet they constitute the most food-insecure group. In Mexico, food self-sufficiency is declining. Rural policies in the country have stimulated the production of cash crops to the detriment of the traditional intercropping system, the milpa. Such a decline may have negative consequences for the food security of subsistence farmers. This study aimed to assess changes in nutritional self-sufficiency over the last 30 years and the role of milpa systems in food security for two communities in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. The study used satellite images, censuses, and field data to estimate food production. Three cropping systems, monoculture of maize, monoculture of common bean, and the milpa were compared in terms of nutrients and vitamins produced. Furthermore, a household typology was developed for each community to contrast nutritional self-sufficiency levels between the different household types. Results showed that the milpa produced more volume of food per area compared to the other systems. The milpa also produced all the nutrients and vitamins (except for B12) required to feed at least 2 persons ha-1. Monocultures of maize lacked vitamins A, B9, B12, and C, and the common bean lacked vitamins A, B12, and C. While farmers recognized the importance of the milpa, they preferred monocultures due to the reduced labor demands of this system. Households that obtained most of their income from off-farm activities had the lowest nutritional self-sufficiency. Enhancing nutritional self-sufficiency through crop diversification has the potential to not only improve the nutrition of subsistence farmers, but also to enhance ecosystem service provision, promote biodiversity conservation and restoration, and improve resilience to climate change.

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Tradeoffs for the achievement of food sovereignty in the Reserva Estatal Geohidrologica Anillo de Cenotes, Yucatan

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Romero

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The challenges of measuring food security and sovereignty in the Yucatán Peninsula

Cited by 12 publications

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[ARTÍCULO RETRACTADO]: Seguridad alimentaria en poblaciones indígenas y campesinas: una revisión sistemática

[ARTÍCULO RETRACTADO]: Seguridad alimentaria en poblaciones indígenas y campesinas: una revisión sistemática

The importance of the traditional milpa in food security and nutritional self-sufficiency in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico

Tradeoffs for the achievement of food sovereignty in the Reserva Estatal Geohidrologica Anillo de Cenotes, Yucatan

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