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This article outlines a biocultural approach that employs a mixed-methods research design to the study of food insecurity in the context of economic transformations in the MonteverdeSocial, economic, and environmental disadvantages are attributed to health disparities or differences in the health among two or more groups of people (www.healthypeople.gov 2020). Because of these disadvantages, structural barriers emerge, including limited access to quality nutrition and adequate health care, which facilitate widening gaps in health outcomes over time. Though health disparities are often examined in the context of ethnicity and race, other intersecting social determinants including gender, sexual orientation, mental health, and socioeconomic status are also considered important (Dean et al. 2013). Much of the research on health disparities has been done in the United States, yet with the rise of global capitalism and growing economic inequalities

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