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Food insecurity has been documented in countries throughout the range of national incomes. Most LatinAmerican countries, including Brazil, fall in the middle of this range. Although responses to problems of foodinsecurity need to be developed for specific contexts, valuable lessons for successful interventions can belearned from both low- and high-income countries. This article begins by describing a continuum of country-level food security contexts. The basic elements of food security, including food availability, access, and utilization,are reviewed as are more recent developments in the field, including livelihood analysis, vulnerability, and riskmanagement strategies. A selection of public sector food security interventions is described that focus onimproving agricultural production, increasing employment and household income, developing human capital,and distributing food. Recent international experiences and insights are used to develop themes for orientationof these types of food security interventions in Latin America. These include: the importance of planning reliefefforts to be synergistic with long-run development; the tailoring of interventions to the needs of specificcontexts; and the related expansion of information systems to support these activities. The article also describesthe need to improve food security without leading to over-consumption, a problem of increasing concernin Latin America and elsewhere. Finally, development of local capacity through community-basedparticipatory actions is suggested as a means for improving program outcomes as well as promotinghuman rights.

Interventions to reduce household food insecurity: a synthesis of current concepts and approaches for Latin America