IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ula/econom/v41y2016i42p133-158.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Food and nutrition security in Venezuela: an explanation from the approach of capacities and human development

Author

Listed:
  • Katty M. Díaz Morales

    (Doctorando en Estudios del Desarrollo. Departamento de Economía. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela. Teléfono: +58 274 8480408.)

  • Ángel G. Hernández

    (PhD en Bioquímica. Facultad de Ciencias. Profesor e investigador del Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Consultor Banco Mundial, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo. Teléfono: +58 212 9793876.)

Abstract

The right to food is an achievement of international consensus on the evolution of Human Rights. From this recognition, supranationality and governments they have made efforts to design policies, plans, programs and projects that contribute to consolidate the system of the Food and Nutrition Security. Venezuelan food policy has been framed in an economic model that has transformed political institutions and system performance. The objective of this article is to analyze food and nutritional security in Venezuela, from the perspective of people’s capacities for the achievement of well-being and human development.

Suggested Citation

  • Katty M. Díaz Morales & Ángel G. Hernández, 2016. "Food and nutrition security in Venezuela: an explanation from the approach of capacities and human development," Economía, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIES). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela, vol. 41(42), pages 133-158, july-dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:ula:econom:v:41:y:2016:i:42:p:133-158
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: ftp://iies.faces.ula.ve/Pdf/Revista42/Rev42Diaz.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Capacity building; human development; the right to food; food security; food policy.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O5 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ula:econom:v:41:y:2016:i:42:p:133-158. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Alexis Vásquez (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iiulave.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.