RESILIENT FOOD SECURITY POLICIES UNDER CLIMATE STRESS: COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE FROM LATIN AMERICA

The purpose of the article is to analyze food security policies implemented in communities experiencing extreme poverty as a consequence of environmental degradation, conceptualized as a form of gender-based violence driven by climate change. The article based on a combination of quantitative impact assessment and qualitative text analysis, enabling a multidimensional understanding of how food security policies influence agricultural productivity and socio-environmental resilience in Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia. Using statistical data from the last decade and qualitative document analysis, the authors demonstrate the relevance of production-oriented strategies, such as productive patios, in addressing both environmental challenges and the sustainable development of Afro-descendant and indigenous populations. We illustrate the proposed method by assessing regional variations in productivity gains and institutional policy effectiveness. Our approach reveals a modest but steady increase in agricultural productivity—despite regional disparities—showing an improvement of up to 5% in localized areas. The new method for evaluating food security effectiveness is confirmed by cross-national comparisons and regression-based validation. New research results can be used for designing inclusive, environmentally just food systems. This paper is novel because it integrates socio-legal perspectives with empirical agricultural data to assess the gendered implications of climate-related food insecurity in Latin America.