Segurança Alimentar como base da política pública dos governos Lula da Silva (2003-2010) – Uma análise de Soft Power –

Abstract

As a country that is historically related to malnutrition and social inequality, Brazil has faced hunger and misery for a very long time. In the late 1990s, the Rome Declaration on World Food Security (1996), under the scope of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), defined food security as the physical and economic access of nutritious and sufficient food that enables an active life. In that regard, an appropriate State treatment to this issue seems to be used effectively only after the government of Luiz Inácio da Silva (2003-2010). With that being said, this paper intends to study the Food and Nutrition Security (FSN) between 2003 and 2010 under the assumption that the FSN policy was able to manifest itself in the terms of Soft Power, as defined by Joseph Nye, allowing Brazil to provide non-coercive resources to project itself and rise in the international hierarchy. That is confirmed through the analysis of social programs developed at that time, as the Fome Zero and the Bolsa Família, the investigation on national politics and its relation to brazilian foreign policy, as well as the outcomes of the South-South Cooperation. Finally, it is shown how FSN’s Soft Power is lost in the post-Lula governments (Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer e Jair Bolsonaro) due to a major disruption of the Food and Nutrition Security’s policy, hence, its loss of capacity in terms of Soft Power.