CSS Working Paper No.8 publishedFood inequalities in Argentina and Brazil: A Dilemma of our TimeAntônio Inácio Andrioli and Ricardo Favaretto Antunes

15 November 2022, by CSS

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The eigth Working Paper in the CSS Working Paper Series has been published.

Food Inequalities in Argentina and Brazil: A Dilemma of our Time

Authors: Antônio Inácio Andrioli and Ricardo Favaretto Antunes

Abstract: The article aims to assess the current situation of food inequalities in Argentina and Brazil. The two countries are considered the most industrialized and economically developed in Latin America, and have historically coexisted with growing rates of social inequality, poverty, and hunger. In other words, they are rich and hungry territories at the same time. The most recent publications on hunger indicate an increase in food insecurity (FI) in this region, due to the loss of the population's purchasing power, the concentration of land, the agro-export model of commodities, and the reduction of public policies aimed at combating poverty. The potential to produce wealth contrasts with the unfair distribution of income and the increase in impoverishment, including in the countryside.

Keywords: Inequality, Food sovereignty, Food insecurity, Hunger