Food Systems and violations of the Human Right to Adequate Food : reflections on the covid19 pandemic in Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Daufenback, Vanessa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Coelho, Denise Eugênia Pereira, Bógus, Claudia Maria
• 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/8661745
• topic: Food systems; Human Right to Adequate Food; Pandemic; COVID-19; Sistemas alimentares; Direito Humano à Alimentação Adequada; Pandemia; COVID-19; Sistemas alimentarios; Derecho humano a una alimentación adecuada; Pandemia; COVID-19

Given the worsening situation of hunger and food and nutritional insecurity in Brazil due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study aimed to: analyze the actions carried out by the State during the pandemic and understand how they contributed to the realization or violation of the Human Right to Adequate Food (DHAA); understand the relationship between these actions and the modus operandi of current food systems. This was an empirical study, based on the challenges and axes of the last National Plan for Food and Nutritional Security. Data collection was carried out in two major newspapers, followed by document analysis focused on the social dynamics expressed in its content. The results support that there was a process of violation of the DHAA during the pandemic in the four dimensions related to the obligation to guarantee it, mainly to the most vulnerable populations, due to both lack and insufficiency of actions. The results indicate that these violations are not just a short-term political result, but indeed are the product of the dynamics intrinsic to food systems, in symbiosis with the political and economic power relations that structure the Brazilian State, and their insertion in the dynamics of international capitalism.