Villalobos-Pérez Ariadna Guadalupe, López Maria de Lourdes Flores, Théodore Florence L, Villanueva-Borbolla María Ángeles, Saldaña Kim Sánchez
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México.
Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencia y Tecnologías, Cuidad de México, México.
Cad Saude Publica. 2025 May 26;41(4):e00054424. doi: 10.1590/0102-311XES054424. eCollection 2025.
This study aimed to characterize the food environment of internal agricultural migrant workers in Mexico and to build scenarios in prospective terms to formulate alternatives that guide food and agriculture policies based on a social justice approach. Qualitative methods were used, including semi-structured interviews with women who are laborers and specialists in the subject, observation in chili cultivation fields in Guanajuato, image capture, as well as food foresight workshops. The data were analyzed via content analysis. Internal agricultural migrant workers face systematic disadvantages throughout migration, inscribed in a context of high vulnerability and discrimination. They live in a precarious situation, both in terms of work and access to adequate food, immersed in an unhealthy food environment, surrounded by deserts and food swamps. A plausible scenario in which they can migrate under fair conditions and with guarantees of their labor and food rights. Internal agricultural migrant workers' six dimensions of social justice to achieve well-being are not covered, reflected in a food environment that promotes injustices, inequality, and food vulnerability. The acute need for public policies aimed at improving working, living, and food conditions in rural areas by promoting local economies, and seeking to make migration an option and not an obligation, is reinforced. Implementing such policies would not only improve their lives but also promote a fairer food model for the Mexican countryside, based on food sovereignty.
本研究旨在描述墨西哥国内农业移民工人的食物环境,并前瞻性地构建情景,以制定基于社会正义方法的指导粮食和农业政策的替代方案。采用了定性方法,包括对作为劳动者和该领域专家的女性进行半结构化访谈、在瓜纳华托州的辣椒种植田进行观察、图像采集以及食物远见研讨会。通过内容分析对数据进行了分析。国内农业移民工人在整个移民过程中面临系统性劣势,处于高度脆弱和歧视的背景之中。他们在工作和获得充足食物方面都处于不稳定状态,置身于不健康的食物环境中,周围是食物荒漠和食物沼泽。一种合理的情景是,他们能够在公平的条件下迁移,并保障其劳动和食物权利。国内农业移民工人实现福祉所需的社会正义的六个维度未得到涵盖,这反映在一个助长不公正、不平等和食物脆弱性的食物环境中。这强化了对旨在通过促进地方经济来改善农村地区工作、生活和食物条件,并力求使迁移成为一种选择而非义务的公共政策的迫切需求。实施此类政策不仅将改善他们的生活,还将基于食物主权为墨西哥农村地区推动一种更公平的食物模式。