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Hunger and malnutrition are persistent global challenges that also impact Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). There are a variety of proposals for policies and interventions to jointly address these problems as regions and countries, but they typically involve funding the work needed to end hunger and combat malnutrition. It does not come with any suggestions on how to do it.
This document provides an initial approach to the issue of financing needed to eradicate all forms of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in LAC.
To analyze financing, you first need to know the costs. This paper therefore provides a brief overview of the debate on the methodology used to estimate the costs of eliminating hunger and other forms of malnutrition, and summarizes some of the existing estimates for this region. Masu. Relatively few detailed analyzes have been conducted on LAC, and even fewer on individual countries. The lack of specific cost information creates challenges when considering effective financing strategies.
In addition to considering estimates of the costs of resolving the issues mentioned, we also address the possible costs of not resolving them, i.e. the costs of not achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2 in particular) To do. The same goes for other international agreements on hunger and malnutrition.
This paper presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between possible financial flows and agricultural systems, in particular the eradication of hunger and malnutrition. This conceptual framework takes a broad concept of financing and covers six main types of financial flows in agricultural systems: a) two internal flows within agricultural systems (the first One is consumer spending on food and related products, the other is income) from all economic agents within the system used to finance production and related activities), and b) external to the agricultural system. four streams (international development finance, public budgets, banking and capital market finance).
It is of paramount importance to understand these flows within the framework of agro-systems, which covers the production, distribution, marketing and consumption of food. The agri-food systems approach focuses on understanding the relationships between agricultural and food policies, the costs of hunger and malnutrition, and financial flows.
This conceptual framework was then used by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the World Bank, and others. It is worth noting that these are aggregated sources of information and do not provide clear assignments to behaviors directly related to hunger and malnutrition, and that there may be differing opinions on such assignments. To do. More accurate estimates of these financial flows will require detailed country-by-country analysis. Along with these clarifications, this document provides preliminary estimates of the scale of different financial flows that may be related to food security and nutrition, as seen in the table below.
