Innovations to fight against hunger and food insecurity: The Brazilian strategy

Innovations to fight against hunger and food insecurity: The Brazilian strategy

Nádia Velleda Caldas, Flávio Sacco dos Anjos

The purpose of this article is to analyze the Brazilian experience of confronting hunger and food insecurity in the last decade. In this country, the matter has become state policy under the aegis of various public instruments and policies. One of the most promising tools was the creation of institutional markets, a system that ensures the link between expanding access to food products for the population and the social inclusion of family farmers. The creation of these markets must be attributed to the confluence of three vectors. Firstly, the State effort to consolidate the area of family agriculture that began in the first half of the 1990s. Secondly, the protagonism of the forces working in the field of family agriculture. Third, the political circumstances of Brazil must be emphasized, amidst the State's need to expand its range of alliances with social movements and to meet historical commitments with the reduction of inequalities.

2018

Agricultura Familiar, Brasil, Inclusión social, Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional, mercados institucionales

10.14201/reb20185101124

Revista de Estudios Brasileños

Universidad de Salamanca

History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General), Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence