%0 Journal Article
%T Poor hunger versus agrofuel production another inequality with negative impact in Colombian population AGROCOMBUSTIBLES VS. HAMBRE: UNA ECUACI車N ENERG谷TICA CON RESULTADO NEGATIVO PARA LA POBLACI車N POBRE EN ECOLOMBIA
%A Sara Eloisa Del Castillo-Matamorros
%A 芍ngela Marcela Gordillo Motato
%J Revista Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%D 2011
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X Colombia has problems regarding the availability of food, as accepted by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture itself. Increased food prices resulting from agrofuel production which is beginning to compete with the supply of food for human consumption is a situation which has even been recognised by World Bank spokespeople. This organisation once promoted agrofuel production as an alternative for rescuing the countryside from the oblivion to which Latin-American economies had been condemned during the last few decades. Abundant evidence has now shown that encouraging agrofuel production has promoted the spread of monocrops, in turn leading to soil deterioration, thereby producing greater difficulty in ensuring national food production which would guarantee availability as an essential component of food and nutritional safety. The corn needed to produce the ethanol required by a first-world car to cover 32,000 km/year could supply a normal person's daily calorie needs for 62 years. For example, most Colombian regions and departments forming part of current large agrofuel production megaprojects are well above the average national chronic malnutrition rate (12% for children aged under five and 12.6% for schoolchildren, according to 2005 Colombian Nutritional Survey results. Healthcare professionals must be aware of and analyse such policy putting the food safety of Colombia's most disadvantaged population at risk. En Colombia, como lo acepta el misterio del ramo, existen problemas de disponibilidad de alimentos. El incremento en los precios de los alimentos como consecuencia de la producci車n de agrocombustibles que entran a competir con el alimento de los seres humanos, es una situaci車n reconocida hasta por los voceros del Banco Mundial, organizaci車n que otrora promov赤a la producci車n de agrocombustibles como alternativa para sacar al campo del olvido al que hab赤a estado condenado por las econom赤as latinoamericanas en las 迆ltimas d谷cadas. Son numerosas las evidencias que demuestran que al incentivar la producci車n de agrocombustibles se promueve el monocultivo, lo cual conduce al deterioro de los suelos, generando una mayor dificultad para asegurar una producci車n nacional de alimentos que garantice la disponibilidad como componente esencial de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. Con el ma赤z necesario para producir el etanol que requiere un autom車vil del primer mundo para recorrer 32.000 km/a o, podr赤an cubrirse las necesidades cal車ricas diarias de una persona durante 62 a os. En Colombia, por ejemplo, la mayor赤a de las regiones y departamentos que hacen
%K hambre
%K poblaci車n
%K alimentos
%K cultivos agr赤colas
%K producci車n de alimentos
%K seguridad alimentaria y nutricional
%K hunger
%K population
%K food
%K agricultural cultivation
%K food production
%K food security
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