Food and Nutrition Policies and Programs under the Colombian market’s logic

Abstract This paper aims to understand the meanings of food and nutrition policies for beneficiary mothers and for technicians designing and implementing said policies. The Grounded Theory method was employed. The data collection techniques adopted were the semi-structured interview and the focus group. The participants were beneficiaries of food and nutrition programs, with a minimum two-year experience, and technicians with five-year experience in designing or implementing these policies and programs. Food and nutrition policies are conceived and managed under a market logic, which has required an institutional framework that adopted this commercial model to provide public services, which is implemented in the scheme of outsourcing third parties, especially private companies, who implement these policies to achieve financial profitability. The market is imposed as the benchmark for the State’s actions, and, therefore, the State’s action is limited the oversight of outsourced actions, and food policies become devices for the diversion of public resources to the private sector.

摘要
本研究旨在厘清食品与营养政策对于受益母亲群体，以及参与政策设计与实施的技术人员而言的内涵与意义。本研究采用扎根理论（Grounded Theory）方法。数据采集采用半结构化访谈与焦点小组讨论两种技术手段。研究参与者分为两类：一类为拥有至少两年相关项目参与经验的食品与营养项目受益母亲；另一类为在食品政策与项目的设计或实施领域拥有五年以上从业经验的技术人员。

食品与营养政策的制定与管理均遵循市场逻辑，这要求构建适配该商业模式的制度框架以提供公共服务，具体实施方式为外包第三方主体，尤其是私营企业，由这些主体执行政策以实现财务盈利目标。市场逻辑被确立为国家施政的基准，因此国家的职能被限定为对外包行为的监督，而食品政策也沦为将公共资源转移至私营部门的工具。