Insegurança alimentar, acesso e inflação de alimentos no Brasil

Abstract

This work started from the perspective that study a topic as hunger is not a simple job, because it is a wide and controversial topic. Recognize the polysemic nature of the question presented in chapter 1, implies multiple possibilities for analysis in each of its dimensions, and at the same time reveals the need for cut theme to accomplish the work. The option adopted by this study was to assess food insecurity in Brazil, considering the food inflation observed since the 2000s. This definition is justified mainly by identification, demonstrated in Chapter 2, that the main cause of hunger in the country, as in much of the world, refers to the difficulty of economic access to food due to lack of income, a framework that reflects poverty and state of underdevelopment. The improvement of public policies to fight hunger in the country, presented in Chapter 3, presents the importance of this aspect, which became, over time, their main focus. The situation of food insecurity in Brazil is related, therefore, the impact of these policies in the current context, characterized by food inflation, as shown in chapter 4. The assessment of these impacts was done in Chapter 5 of this thesis, using survey data from PNAD and POF. It was found from the empirical study, that hunger is a universal social problem under capitalism, with much higher incidence in underdeveloped and dependent countries, and that specific policies, such as Bolsa Família, don t have potential to overcome the problem, that is intrinsic to capitalist development, and that situation becomes worse in the context of inflation. The results indicate that consistent macroeconomic policies, with the generation of employment and real income, are necessary, beyond synergistic social policies, to resolve the problem of poverty and hunger in the country.