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Right to Food Observatory · Mexico Chapter

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The Mexico Chapter of the Right to Food Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean is part of a regional academic network dedicated to generating and sharing knowledge to help guarantee the human right to adequate food.

This space highlights its activities, research, and publications, and facilitates dialogue with global bioethics on food justice, sustainability, and the social and environmental conditions that make adequate food possible.

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ODA–México · Seminar

World Food Day 2026 Seminar

Innovating Today to Feed Tomorrow: Challenges and Opportunities for Transforming Food Systems in Mexico and Latin America

The Mexico Chapter of the Right to Food Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean presents this seminar as a space for dialogue on the challenges and opportunities for transforming food systems in Mexico and Latin America.

Date
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time
10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m., Mexico City time
Hybrid · In person
Auditorium of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Cuernavaca, Mexico.
In-person attendance requires registration; places are limited.
Online via Zoom
Meeting ID: 862 5649 4419
Passcode: MUNALIM3N

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The programme does not specify times for individual sessions. Names, roles and institutions are retained as they appear in the original programme.

I. Opening panel

Participation of representatives:

  • Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública.
    Anabelle Bonvecchio (CINyS)
  • Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura.
    Luis Lobo (FAO)
  • Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo en la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo.
    Ingrid Narváez González (AMEXCID)
  • Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación en América Latina y el Caribe.
    Mauricio Hernández (ODA-ALC)

II. Presentation of the ODA-ALC Mexico Chapter

ODA México: identity, membership and areas of work

Objective: Present what ODA-ALC is, what it does, who its members are, and the main areas of work of the Mexico Chapter.

Participants:

  • María Victoria Fernández Molina
    Coordinadora ODA México. CADEBI, Universidad Anáhuac.
    ODA México Coordinator.
  • Claudia Ivonne Ramírez Silva
    Co- coordinadora ODA México. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
    ODA México Co-coordinator.

III. Academic seminar

  1. Food systems overview: challenges and opportunities for advancing healthy and sustainable diets.
    Abril Campos/TEC-Monterrey
  2. From production to consumption: the current situation and sustainable transformation of food systems.
    Esperanza Arnés/UNAM-Morelia
  3. Biocultural rights and food systems: the case of Mexico.
    Blanca Ireri Camacho/UIIM
  4. The right to adequate and sustainable food in Latin America: progress, challenges and opportunities.
    Manuela Cuvi/FAO
  5. Impacts of federal government legislative and public policy changes (2019–2024) to advance the right to food in Mexico.
    Ivet Miriam Pérez Molina/UNAM
  6. Implementation of the General Law on Adequate and Sustainable Food in Mexico: challenges and opportunities.
    Francisco Meza/DGPSP-Secretaría de Salud

IV. Discussion

Objective: Identify priorities, shared challenges and lines of action to transform food systems in Mexico and Latin America.

Moderator: Mauricio Hernandez

  • Access to justice / Yadira Robles
  • Planetary health, diet and biodiversity / Rebeca Monroy/Mishel Unar
  • Diet, nutrition and breastfeeding / Claudia Ivonne Ramírez
  • The right to food / María Victoria Fernández

ODA-ALC

A regional academic network

ODA-ALC is a regional academic network whose Technical Secretariat receives ongoing technical and administrative support from the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Visit the ODA-ALC website