Socio-legal coherence in the food systems of Oaxaca, Monterrey andMexico City

Abstract

Derived from the growth of cities, a variety of socio-environmental challenges arise, which drives
the transition to sustainability of cities and their systems. One of these challenges is the ecological
decoupling of food systems, by virtue of guaranteeing the right to food of cities and their social wellbeing, but without sacrificing the quality of the environment in the process. The objective of this article
is to visualize the level of socio-legal coherence of the processes of ecological decoupling, which exist
in the food systems of the metropolitan areas that make up the cities of Oaxaca, Monterrey and Mexico
City. For this, an analysis of the legal framework was made, while a survey was designed and applied
with the specific objective of knowing the eating practices of the interviewees and their families. A
metric was implemented that made it possible to establish on a scale of positives and negatives which
regulatory bodies are consistent or contradictory with the eating practices of the interviewees. The
result was an approximation of the legislative coherence index of the food systems of the three selected
cities. This allowed us to conclude that, although there is some coherence between legislation, food
practices and the context of each city, there is a great dispersion of legislation and public policies.
Generating that the food legal system is inefficient when addressing certain food problems.