Implementation process of the National Crusade against Hunger as a community strategy to reduce food insecurity

Abstract

This article is the result of an investigation into the discursive contradictions of the implementation process of the National Crusade against Hunger food policy as a community strategy; aiming to evaluate its implementation process to find the obstacles that limit its efficiency. The research design proposes a mixed methodology using descriptive statistics and critical hermeneutics from a descriptive, interpretive and explanatory study. The study subjects were 63 beneficiaries of 27 canteens that operate in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico and 27 community mediators who are operators of the social program and who belong to the localities where the canteens are inserted. Among the results are the need for food policies that respond to the sociocultural context where they are being implemented and operation mechanisms based on interactive communication between social actors.