Change in the Dietary Pattern and Water Security

Abstract

Food production and consumption are key activities in our societies. Paradoxically, despite the technological progress over the past 100 years, it has not been able to secure sufficient and healthy feeding for everyone. The validity of food crisis has placed the different dimensions of food consumption at the center of attention. The aim of this chapter is to relate theoretically and empirically, three of the considered dimensions: food sovereignty, water security, and change in the pattern of food consumption. In the first part, the theoretical discussion of the relationship of these dimensions is presented, placing at the center of the argument the concept of food security. The second part contains an exercise that estimates the effect of changes in food consumption, food sovereignty, and water security in Mexico in 1992 and 2010, using data from the national survey of household income and expenditure. The results indicate the importance of valuing more than one of the dimensions involved in the realization of the food right.