The Zero Hunger Challenge: a strategy of the United Nations, its relevance in the global agenda and their importance in Colombia

Abstract

The Zero Hunger Challenge is a strategy for the final hunger eradication in the world based on the effective exercise of the adequate feeding right; which has been advocated by the United Nations to confront the state of famine that afflicts millions of human beings. The need to analyze from the documentary observation the content and legal nature of this strategy in the United Nations international system framework; which lies in understanding its relevance in the global agenda; particularly in the Latin American integration bodies, and in the States, that have had an experience of the Zero Hunger, as in the cases of Brazil and Guatemala. The above, with the purpose of evaluating the significance of this global strategy in Colombia at the end of the Millennium Development Goals fulfilment term (MDG), which allow to set the currently lag in the Colombian State on the matter, and there has been no integration of Zero Hunger Challenge to the national legal system and the inadequacy state tools aimed at ensuring the observance to adequate feeding right.