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.


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