Food and nutrition security in Brazil: scenario before and after the onset of the pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Mattos, Ana Carolina Einsfeld
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Guerin, Marina, Ten Cate, Lidia Nicole dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/san/article/view/8667645
• topic: Seguridad alimenticia; Pandemia; Análisis situacional; Pandemic; Situational analysis; Food security; Pandemia; Análise situacional; Segurança alimentar

This article aims to delimit the situation of Food and Nutritional Security (FNS) in Brazil, comparing before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, a literature review was carried out to capture studies and experiences related to FNS in the Brazilian context in the period of 2017 to 2021. Articles that had analysis about FNS in Brazil were included. There was indication by datas that Brazil was already facin Food and Nutrition Insecurity (FNI) before the pandemic situation, and FNS has undergone intense changes over the past few years, whether in terms of conceptual and political guarantees around the term and/or in the practical and contextual intensity to which populations benefit and are affected by an unequal food system. Public sector initiatives for Food Security must address issues related to working conditions and income, as measures to be taken in the medium term, since there is no shortage of food, but lack of access. For these measures to be possible, it is essential to ensure worker protection policies, so that they can be financially able to purchase safe food. Was considered that Brazil already facing FNI situations, but it was observed that the pandemic produced impacts in short term period that exacerbate this situation, as more famine situation and more difficult to buy food. It’s still not possible to predict the reverberations of pandemic in FNS in the coming years, as it depends on public policies for its guarantee and maintenance.