Objective:

This work postulates that the human right to food has been doubly threatened, both by the expansion of the industrialized food model and by emergency food assistance mechanisms.

Methodology:

From a complexity approach, an attempt is made to make a theoretical contribution to the development of the concept of food adequacy as an element of the human right to adequate food.

Results:

The effective realization of the human right to adequate food in all its complexity and levels calls for comprehensive and long-term policies aimed at reviewing both the industrializing dynamics of the food trade and the short-term dynamics of food assistance.

Limitations:

The study focuses on the political mechanisms for the realization of the human right to food in Argentina.

Conclusions:

The necessary transition in this review involves the recovery of local agri-food systems based on both socially and ecologically responsible food.