Empirical evidence has shown the importance of nutrition in health status, school
performance and work productivity, as well as economic growth. Being the Pacific
of Colombia one of the regions with the worst poor nutritional status, this paper
explores the role of this condition in the perpetuation of poverty in the Colombian
Pacific and its direct determinants. Among the structural problems listed as inputs
for the persistence of nutrition-based poverty trap in this region are: the
relationship between mining and violence, limited joint development of road and
employment conditions of households.