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    Vulnerabilidad de las cadenas de suministros de alimentos y la inseguridad alimentaria, el cambio climático y el desarrollo de estrategias de adaptación: El caso de Haití
    (2020-12-08) Eustache, Herold Kasandor; Comas-Pagán, Myrna; College of Agricultural Sciences; González-Martínez, Gladys M.; Gregory-Crespo, Alexandra; Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Orellana-Feliciano, Lynette E.
    Food security is achieved when all people, always, have physical and economic access to enough food, safe and nutritious, to satisfy their food needs and preferences, in order to lead an active and healthy life (FAO, 2018). Food security has been the subject of much study during the last decades and the goal of the millennium is to eradicate hunger throughout the world in 2030, but the current situation in some countries of the world and the projections of climate change seem to be a major threat to their. This study consists of evaluating the vulnerability of Haitian food supply chains and climate change, evaluating the factors that intervene in food access, and analyzing mitigation and adaptation strategies. The data used in this research were collected in the ECOA database and the World Bank. The global and local supply chain map was established using the protocol developed by Comas, 2009 to assess the vulnerability of the supply chain. The multiple linear regression model with selection of variables was used to evaluate the variables that influence food security from the access and availability aspect. The data were analyzed by the statistical package Stata. The dependent variable was inaccessibility and the independent variables were national production, exchange rate, population, Import, political stability, remittances received, per capita income and available food. To evaluate availability, the variable of available food was used as the response variable and the predictor variables were: political stability, import, production, inflation, disaster and population. The results reported that the supply chain is highly vulnerable to climate change and other factors and that the adaptation strategy would be to reduce the local chain's dependence on the global market by increasing national production. The regressions showed that national production, political stability, and available food negatively influence food inaccessibility, while the exchange rate, received remittances and population growth positively affect inaccessibility. The import, production and population affect positively the availability of food, while the inflation and disaster affect it negatively.