Latin America and Caribbean children’s right to nutritious food

Publication Type:

Challenges Newsletter
Desafíos Seguridad Alimentaria

Description:

The second issue of the Challenges newsletter, which came out in 2006, focused on the right to food of the children of Latin America and the Caribbean. This issue returns to that subject but approaches it from a different angle, with the emphasis now being on all forms of malnutrition rather than solely on undernutrition. This shift in emphasis reflects changes in the type of food supply accessible to children in the region. The lead article offers a thoughtful analysis that, in addition to recognizing the significant inroads in this respect that have been made in Latin America and the Caribbean, underscores the development challenges posed by undernutrition, overweight and obesity among children—challenges that have yet to be addressed by the region’s societies. Chile’s experience with the reduction of undernutrition and its efforts to meet the challenges now being posed by child obesity are discussed in the “Viewpoints” section. In the “Learning from experience” section, the discussion turns to human milk banks, efforts to improve nutrition in rural schools in El Salvador and the introduction of a tax on the consumption of sugary beverages in Mexico.

Number:

21

Editorial commitee:

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)


Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNICEF TACRO)

Editorial Committee:

ECLAC:
Laís Abramo, Jorge Rodríguez, Daniela Trucco

UNICEF: Catalina Gómez, Andrés López

General Coordination: Daniela Trucco, Daniela Huneeus

Contributors: Ignacio Carrasco, Stefano Fedele, Susana Guzmán, Gladys Hauck, Rodrigo Martinez, Amalia Palma, Claudia Robles, Heidi Ullmann.

 

Challenges

Number 21, April 2018

ISSN electronic version 1816-7535

© United Nations, April 2018

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uniceflac@unicef.org

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