Analysis of the mainstreaming of the perspective of the Human Right to Adequate Food in the institutional design of the National School Nutrition Program

• Published in: Ciência & saude coletiva Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 301 - 310
• Main Authors: de Siqueira, Renata Lopes, Cotta, Rosângela Minardi Mitre, Ribeiro, Rita de Cássia Lanes, Sperandio, Naiara, Priore, Sílvia Eloíza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese; English
• Published: Brazil 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Benefits; Brazil; Brazilians; Constitutions; Food; Food security; Food Supply; Government Programs - organization & administration; Human Rights; Humans; Law; Nutrition; Nutrition Policy; Organic farming; Regulation; Schools; Welfare economics; Brazil
• ISSN: 1413-8123; 1678-4561
• DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232014191.2114

Being a signatory to international agreements that recognize the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF) and having enshrined this right into its Constitution, the Brazilian state imposes a duty to provide, protect and promote the HRAF. For this it is necessary to incorporate the principles of the HRAF into the process of planning and executing the actions of Food and Nutrition Security (FNS). The objective was to analyze the process of mainstreaming of the HRAF in the new institutional design of the National School Nutrition Program (NSNP). This is in line with the principles laid down in General Comment No 12 of the Guide for Policy Analysis and Public Programs and nutritional Food Security under the Perspective of Human Rights and the Organic Law on Food and Nutrition Security (OLFNS). The results show that the new regulatory framework of the NSNP indicates a paradigm shift that is characterized by a gradual decline in the perception of NSNP as policy of a welfare nature. Concomitantly, there is an increase in the concept of the benefit of school food as a right, with the caveat that the construction of a new regulatory framework, although essential, is not sufficient for full implementation of the HRAF.