Desafios para a efetivação do Direito Humano à Alimentação Adequada (DHAA) no Brasil: uma análise sobre as políticas públicas de segurança alimentar no período de 1990 a 2022

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on the challenges to the implementation of the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF) in Brazil. In this sense, it starts from the perspective that food insecurity is a chronic problem in the country, which is influenced by several factors beyond nutritional issues. Thus, food insecurity at any level is a consequence of a system that perpetuates social inequality and conditions access to food based on income. From this perspective, it is argued that the worsening of food insecurity since 2016 comes from a context of intense disarticulation of public food security policies in the country. To this end, a bibliographic review on the subject was used to examine the social factors that contributed to the consolidation of the phenomenon. Furthermore, based on statistical data collected on the variation in food insecurity from 2004 to 2022, especially from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the PENSSAN Network, the study sought to compare the disarticulation of public policies with the worsening of food security rates. Thus, through this data, the study determined that the discontinuity of public food security policies in Brazil was a determining factor in return to the United Nations (UN) Hunger Map. However, it is possible to verify that the phenomenon of hunger arises from a much more complex context, which is not limited to the extinction of public policies, so that there are economic and political assumptions that make it impossible to overcome this scenario.