Saúde Coletiva e Agroecologia: necessárias conexões para materializar sistemas alimentares sustentáveis e saudáveis

Abstract

The connection between collective health and agro ecology is discussed in this article as an expression of a sustainable and healthy food system oriented by the principle of nutritional food sovereignty and security. The notion of corporate or neoliberal food regime is the basis for analyzing the transformations undergone by the food system in the context of the neoliberal global order, whose fragilities are stressed. Attention is given to counter hegemonic trends impelled by social movements and alternative structures of food supply. The neoliberal food regime is anchored in the power of large corporations, able to control the state, shaped by unfair and destructive practices that evict local populations from their territories, deplete nature, poison soil and water flows, air and food, and sicken or kill people and the environment. On the opposite, agro ecology and collective health are regarded counter hegemonic fields, in which sustainable and health food systems are built. Based on this analysis, it is necessary to build an interdisciplinary knowledge that provides a conceptual strength and promote visibility to a coherent food system, resting on the principles of nutritional food sovereignty and security, human rights to adequate food, valorization of human life and respect to nature.