Overview and Protection Programs of Food Security in Mexico

Abstract

Providing food security to the population represents a global challenge, especially for developing countries due to the unsustainable population growth, low incomes and accelerated urbanization rate. In México, a high percentage of the population does not have access to a basic basket and therefore has some degree of food insecurity. Government programs have tried to mitigate this problem by providing sufficient food, especially in vulnerable populations such as indigenous communities, rural communities, children and women. On the other hand, the alarming rates of obesity and overweight that have raised the morbidity of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes in the population, reflect a problem related to hidden hunger, the one where there is a deficiency of micronutrients, focusing on a diet high in energy content, evidencing the lack of nutritional quality in foods and disinformation among Mexican population. This article shows the situation of food security in Mexico and some government programs intending to mitigate this problem, but only a few of them pay little attention to nutritional aspects, restricting the right to a qualitative nutrition