O PROGRAMA BOLSA FAMÍLIA E SUA RELAÇÃO COM A SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR E O DIREITO HUMANO À ALIMENTAÇÃO ADEQUADA análise do programa no Brasil, com enfoque no Estado de Goiás.

Abstract

This dissertation traces an historical evolution of Human Right to Food and Food Security concepts and how the international institutions, and Brazil itself deal with it, focusing on the state of Goiás. The research issues are focused primarily on verifying the existence and effectiveness mechanisms to ensure Food Security and Nutrition and ensure the Human Right to adequate food in Brazil.The work has the overall goal to approach the problem of hunger in Brazil facing the dispositions of national and international legal systems, performing a contemporary approach to the concept of human rights, the historical evolution of the Human Right to Food in the national and international level and the political decisions adopted by Brazil and the State of Goiás to overcome this problem of international reach. It also verify if the Bolsa Família Program, as a public policy to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, has been effective for the purposes for which it is proposed, general wide in Brazil and specifically in Goiás. In 2012, 11,8 million people were hungry in Brazil, therefore effective public policy to eradicate hunger is very important to poor people so they can get access to food. The research concludes that public subsidies policies as the way they are implemented in Brazil, like Bolsa Família , are effective to reduce immediate poverty and hunger, nevertheless are not very efficient to give autonomy to the beneficiaries families.