Direito humano à alimentação adequada e inovações dos arranjos jurídico-institucionais: estudo de caso do Restaurante Popular de Juiz de Fora Yedda Duarte Gomes

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze legal and institutional arrangements related to the human right to adequate food and nutritional security. The analyzed elements are the innovations of the public food policies implemented since 2003, regarding decentralization, social control and popular participation. The direct data analyzed were obtained from minutes, memorandums and official letters, together with the Municipality's main social control institution regarding nutrition, the Municipal Council for Food and Nutrition Security of Juiz de Fora. The question that the study wishes to answer deals with how this new legal and institutional approach works, analyzing its limits and possibilities, advances and preservations in guaranteeing the Human Right to Adequate Food. In methodological terms, the research promotes an empirical and qualitative analysis based on the research strategy of case study of a public policy, in the search of analytical generalizations, according to Robert Yin. The theoretical substrate which guides the analysis is contained in the notions of a dialectical idea of the Right, according to Roberto Lyra Filho. The main conclusion is that institutional legal innovations have promoted advances in guaranteeing the Human Right to Adequate Food, yet they find certain limits in political decisions, as in the case of Juiz de Fora. Thus, it is believed that legal and institutional innovations are limited to a centralizing political will, leading to new approaches to overcome this scenario.