FOOD SOCIAL POLICY

Abstract

One of the mechanisms available to the Social Policy to achieve the greatest Social Well-being of the
citizenry is to direct its strategies towards the full satisfaction of the needs demanded by the
population. To this end, it is the State that articulates and manages the appropriate measures, through
public and private institutions, being these necessary instruments for the rights of citizens to be made
effective. In the case of food, it is a basic need, a right, the protection of which in the Spanish
Constitution (1978) does not have a specific treatment since it might be thought that, in democratically
mature and thus considered advanced societies, the lack of food is still a punctual problem. Spain, in
addition to having ratified the different Agreements and Conventions that include express mention of
the right to food, in its 1978 constitutional text (article 35.1), implicitly includes in its articles, the
protection of the right to adequate food