Climate change and food security in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2023

Authors

Antonio Sánchez, Diana Guadalupe (Author) Other; Gutiérrez Moguel, Nelly Victoria (Author) Other; Lima, Gabriela (Author) FLUP; Suárez-Herrera, José Carlos (Author) Other; Abeldaño Zuñiga, Roberto Ariel (Author) Other

Book

Title: SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-91188-1

Publisher: Springer Cham

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91188-1_52-1

Abstract (EN): The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for improving human nutrition and food security through equitable and sustainable use of ecosystems. With increasing demand for food, more must be produced with less arable land available. Some figures produced by the FAO indicate that, by 2050, more than 5 billion tons of food will have to be produced to feed the 10 billion people who will inhabit the world in the coming decades. This chapter aims to analyze the climatic trends in Mexico between 2000 and 2020 and the prevalence of food insecurity by gender in light of SDGs 2, 5, 10, and 17 and envision strategic alliances to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on food security. The main results show an increase in the variables related to climate change, with worrying climate projections for the end of this century. Food security trends show improvement in indicators between 2012 and 2018. However, there was a significant setback in 2020 due to the economic recession during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender differences are affecting female-headed households, thus jeopardizing the achievement of the 2030 Agenda regarding SDG 2, “Zero Hunger”.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 32