Sistemas Alimentarios: Vías de Acción para la transformación holística de la sociedad venezolana

Venezuelans are facing extremely challenging moments in terms of achieving well-being. In addition to the problems inherent to the internal crisis, the world around has also reached enormous levels of complexity, including armed conflicts, climate changes and technological transformations, from which Venezuela does not escape. Particularly, the Venezuelan food system (VAS) has been a sector extremely hit during the crisis, due to the successive changes – not necessarily for the better, that it has experienced. All of these has contributed to increasing the prevalence of malnutrition in the country, and the food and nutritional insecurity that most Venezuelan households must face. This work addresses the general lines of action to return to a food system that is the basis for achieving food security and sovereignty in the country and strengthening the right to food, health, and life in Venezuela. Based on secondary sources, it presents a summary of the current situation, and then focus on urgent changes in policies and recommendations to contribute to the so needed transformation, emphasizing nutritional education to promote healthy and sustainable eating, by adopting sustainable consumption patterns, under holistic perspectives, in which the food and nutrition are the fundamental axis. Thus, qualitative aspects of food insecurity, sometimes unnoticed in malnutrition statistics and often excluded from food and nutritional recovery strategies, such as the norms, uses, and customs at the Venezuelan table, culinary traditions, the pleasure of eating, and stress management, must be recovered. Therefore, the reactivation of the SAV in all links of the chain is one of the best ways to recover the longed-for well-being and health -which ultimately depends on the conjunction of many variables-, to which most people are committed.