Una mirada global y regional al derecho a la alimentación : A global and regional review of the right to food

Abstract

Global Report on Food Crises 2019 notes that 113 million people in 53 countries experienced elevated levels of food insecurity. In Latin America and the Caribbean in 2018 hunger reached 42.5 million. In 2017, Colombia was on the list of countries with the highest number of undernourished people. A significant case was evidenced by the Ombudsman's Office in 2014 The entity found that 59.1% of households in the department of La Guajira lacked food security and 27.9% of boys and girls under 5 years suffered from chronic malnutrition. This review analyzes the publications presented in the last ten (10) years and identifies the main leading countries in scientific production in the area of social sciences carried out with legal studies related to the right to food. Through a search by topic on the Scopus, Scimago and Web of Science, Scielo, Google Schoolar and Journal Citation Reports platforms, a global, regional and national vision was obtained. In this way, the country that has led the scientific production in Law at a global level is the United States with a total of 97892 documents published from 1996 to 2018. The regional leader, in this same period is Chile with 1936. Colombia occupies the ranked 39 globally and 4 regionally with 871.