The Right to Food in Argentina: Implications and Challenges of the Healthy Eating Promotion Law in the Context of Emergency Food Policies

Despite the constitutional recognition of the right to adequate food in 1994, food insecurity and the logic of emergency-based responses have shaped Argentina’s food policy over the last decades. This report analyzes that process from a human rights perspective, reviewing the main regulations and policies between 2002 and 2025. It examines the tensions between the prevailing assistance-based model and the State’s obligations under international human rights law, and presents the Healthy Eating Promotion Law (Law No. 27,642) as the most significant paradigm shift in this field in the last two decades. In a context marked by regulatory setbacks and worsening food insecurity, the document identifies current challenges for the effective implementation of the right to food and outlines possible paths for its protection and enforceability.