Da fome à palatabilidade estéril: ‘espessando’ ou ‘diluindo’ o Direito Humano à Alimentação Adequada no Brasil?

Abstract

In the contemporary scenario the 'food-health-commodity' triad is 'thickened' and 'diluted' by virtue of the rearrangements of global economic crises and their local expressions in capitalist political-economic-social dynamics. Reproducing in their different faces: hunger, malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies and the problems arising from the excessive consumption of food, such as overweight, obesity and chronic non-communicable diseases. In Brazil, food as a social right is in dispute, like all other social rights, because of the global economic crisis and its expression at the local level. This essay offers a reflection on the contours that DHAA has been presenting in Brazil in recent history. To this end, we consider the theme's developments internationally, the course of its most recent historical construction on the national scene, and the current challenges through the dismantling of social rights scenario and finally we raise some questions to raise awareness about the positions and the actions taken by the social agents involved.