RVAC Julio-Diciembre 2012 [#18 vol. 2]

Abstracts…
Basket food regulations in Venezuela
Thaís Ledezma & Zuleima Rodríguez Acevedo
The basket food regulations are an instrument that is used to plan the social and
economic policies in the area of food security in this country. The objective of this
article is made a comparative analysis of results for different baskets food regulations
that are made by National Institute of Statistics in Venezuela in the years
1997 and 2002. These comparative analyses of results are made emphasizing
the support instruments that are used to develop each basket food regulations. It
is concluded that today is still using the basket food regulations of 1997 and it is
15 years of effective. It is necessary to update these basket food regulations
because there are lot of sources and recent studies that support this update. In a
point, it is important to develop information campaigns of health because it could
promote healthy eating habits.
Keywords: Venezuela food basket, food security, social policies, economic policies,
healthy eating.
Evolution of research networks in the Latin American academic context:
Comparative analysis of the impact of Colombia and Venezuela
research schemes
Miguel Angel Cardozo-Montilla
This study was realized with the aim of analyzing the evolution of the research
university networks in Latin America, subsequently comparing the impacts of
scientific work schemes of two of their countries, Colombia and Venezuela, in
order to assess some of the potential effects of implementing (or not implementing)
strategies for the development of these networks in both nations. From the
findings it is concluded that the research seedbeds of Colombia seem to be generating
a positive impact on aspects such as the scientific productivity, while the
trends observed in Venezuela could be linked to a poor collaborative research
culture in its universities.
Keywords: Research networks; universities; Latin America; Colombia; Venezuela.
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