It has been very interesting to read your opinions and points of views in this subject. As for Chile, food security has a particular approach, since the country has dramatically reduced its poverty rates during the last 20 years and we no longer have hunger problems. Moreover, the chilean policies have been export oriented since the early 90's and nowadays we count on a wide platform of free trade agrements that allows our consumers to acces to an important variety of products (foods) at very competitve prices, at the same time that the producers have the opportunity to join global value chains.
Considering the aforementioned, here are my comments on some of the questions:
1.- there are 2 types of agriculture in Chile: entreprenurial agriculture and family farming. the first one has become very succesfull on participating and leading global value chains, even positioning the country into the top ten world exporting ranking in products like tablegrapes, blueberries and cherries. On the other hand, we still have a challenge on incorporating family farmers to global value chains. in order to acomplish that, we have to grant the farmers better acces to technologies and information as well as higher levels of education, to make them more competitive and empowered enough to dimish the chain on the distribution levels. This is one of the main objectives of the Ministry of Agriculture.
2.- To improve nutrition, there has been policies developed to ensure child's nutrition trough the schools and monthly economic support for the people under certain income level, in order to help them cover their basic needs.
3.- The main challenge for policy implementation related to food security research is to stablish a food security concept based on the chileans reality, considereng the quality of the nutrition as the major issue.
4.- We will ensure the participation of youthness as long as we put the focus of the dialogue on the appropiate subject.
Hello everyone,
It has been very interesting to read your opinions and points of views in this subject. As for Chile, food security has a particular approach, since the country has dramatically reduced its poverty rates during the last 20 years and we no longer have hunger problems. Moreover, the chilean policies have been export oriented since the early 90's and nowadays we count on a wide platform of free trade agrements that allows our consumers to acces to an important variety of products (foods) at very competitve prices, at the same time that the producers have the opportunity to join global value chains.
Considering the aforementioned, here are my comments on some of the questions:
1.- there are 2 types of agriculture in Chile: entreprenurial agriculture and family farming. the first one has become very succesfull on participating and leading global value chains, even positioning the country into the top ten world exporting ranking in products like tablegrapes, blueberries and cherries. On the other hand, we still have a challenge on incorporating family farmers to global value chains. in order to acomplish that, we have to grant the farmers better acces to technologies and information as well as higher levels of education, to make them more competitive and empowered enough to dimish the chain on the distribution levels. This is one of the main objectives of the Ministry of Agriculture.
2.- To improve nutrition, there has been policies developed to ensure child's nutrition trough the schools and monthly economic support for the people under certain income level, in order to help them cover their basic needs.
3.- The main challenge for policy implementation related to food security research is to stablish a food security concept based on the chileans reality, considereng the quality of the nutrition as the major issue.
4.- We will ensure the participation of youthness as long as we put the focus of the dialogue on the appropiate subject.