A contribuição do Fome Zero na consolidação da política brasileira de segurança alimentar

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Pedro Bras Martins da
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12537
• topic: Food security; Zero Hunger Programme; Family Grant Programme; Struggle against hunger; Segurança alimentar; Programa Fome Zero; Programa Bolsa Família; Combate à fome; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA

The aim of this master thesis is to explain why the food security policy of Brazil has achieved good results when struggling against hunger and assuring the Right to Adequate Food. Thus, it investigates federal government expenditures with welfare policies, microdata from national housing survey, Human Development Reports from UNDP and food security reports from FAO. According to this data, one might conclude that food security situation nowadays is significantly better from the one found before the implementation of the Zero Hunger Programme in the year 2003. From this standpoint, the current master thesis works up the hypothesis that the lowering of food inequality is associated with such policy design, which aims to: (1) institutionalize policies and rights, (2) decentralize its actions, (3) broaden civil society participation and (4) increase social expenditures. By one side, analyzing data and bibliography, this research shows how Zero Hunger design was able to strengthen the four characteristics above in the food security policy. By the other side, using linear regressions, it shows how expenditures with cash transfers (like the Family Grant Programme) are insufficient to explain the observed decrease in food insecurity in the lasts national housing surveys. Literature stresses the fact that the evolution of social expenditures and target public explains the good results of the food security policy, but this thesis argues that such explanation is not enough. Its relevance consists in estimating the impact of institutions on the food issue by applying new research methods.