Food, all right
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Campaign seeks to include the right to food in the Federal Constitution. Today, 14 million people go hungry in Brazil.
Cane juice is a mixture of hot water with sugar that has become a way to feed poor children in the Northeast. This daily hunger was turned into a documentary and shown yesterday to the opening of the Paraná Food Campaign: Right of All. The drink is named the film the filmmaker José Padilha and served as a basis for discussing the inclusion of the right to food in the Federal Constitution. If approved, the Proposed Constitutional Amendment 047/2003 will help ensure food for the 14 million people today suffer from hunger in the country. The initiative is the National Council for Food Security (Consea) and is expected to be voted the PEC in October this year.
In the film Garapa are told stories of three families in the Northeast who have no food for her children and make a kind of molasses to ensure power to the boys and girls. The reality, however, fits in all of Brazil. A survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) based on 2004 data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) showed that 35% of the population, about 72 million people are food insecure. The levels are divided into mild, moderate or severe, which means limited access to food quantity, with or without famine. There are 6.5% of the population in the last stage. This means that nearly one of every 13 Brazilians had to eat during the 90 days preceding the survey.
State Policy
Experts believe that Brazil can give an example for the world to include the right to food in its Constitution. This is because the policies would no longer be just a government to become state policies. This is what happened with the National Health System and the Unified Social Welfare, for example. It creates a system of guarantees for the entire population can have access to quality food. The executive and legislative branches of federal, state and municipal governments will have as goals the implementation of policies and monitoring by the public prosecutor will be easier.
Today, it is possible to observe actions in various sectors of the three spheres of government. This is because food security demand joint action, but the problem is that there is no overall coordination and articulate. In many cases there are municipal policies, but there is no dialogue with the state. Another issue is that in addition to immediate access to food, we must work areas such as strengthening family agriculture, income generation and institutionalization of the National Food Security.
The economist and professor at the University of Brasilia Newton Narciso Gomes Junior said that the inclusion of nutrition as a social right in the Constitution is very positive for the issue of hunger in the country, however, it reinforces the fundamental guarantees can not be separated from each other . Thus, access to food will not be fully actualized is not accompanied by health and education. "It's no good to have some health and a little food. This basic rights are not guaranteed. They are not separable or hierarquizáveis "he explains. "But the inclusion of that item in the Charter changes the perspective. Hunger is urgent and the right is broader, dealing with the human condition. "
Congressman Nazareno Fontelenes, president of the Parliamentary Front for Food Security of the House of Representatives, said that the food has always been treated as a commodity and not a right. "Since the approval of the PEC, the people themselves will be able to demand and monitor this issue." Fontelenes says you have to ensure both access to production, creating broad policies and overall scope. Another question put forward by Mr is the expansion of the Bolsa Família. Who is the poverty line would have a secondary income guaranteed. He argues that social protection is present in several countries in Europe. "Of course you need autonomy. But the public universities, for example, are filled mostly with people who have good income and no one thinks this is charity, "he explains. "Today the country is on track. As elsewhere hunger is growing, we follow the reverse path. "
For the nutritionist and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná Maria Teresa Gomes de Oliveira Ribas to become a social right, the power to organize service delivery in line with a system, as with welfare, for example. "The law will stipulate the instances of operation, the responsibility of the state and assistance in nutrition. When food is inserted into a law the maximum, as is the Constitution, it becomes a lifetime warranty. The right to food is the right to life itself. "
Another question that Maria Teresa is remember the increase in obesity in our population. "Not able to overcome the issue of hunger and we have to face all consequences and comorbidities related to obesity." She explains that the lack of information and adequate food, even for those with financial conditions is a violation of rights.
Service:
The campaign will be launched today in Foz do Iguacu. The event starts at 19h30 at the Center Visitors Reception Itaipu Binational.
Source: Gazeta do Povo
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