Brazil's Zero Hunger Programme
Zero Hunger : Lessons from Brazil`s Food Security Policy
• Zero Hunger is a Federal Government strategy to ensure the human right to adequate food.
• Is part of the promotion of food and nutrition security, and it contributes to the extreme poverty eradication and to the citizenship acquisition by the most vulnerable to hunger population.
• It encompasses various programs and actions. It articulates public policies.
• It articulates measures to ensure rights with actions for the emancipation, dealing with the false dichotomy: structuring policies versus urgent measures
• It stimulates the participation and the control of the civil society in the elaboration and monitoring of social policies.
• It focuses on the family, giving special attention to the issue of territoriality.