Fight against hunger and compensatory policies: community restaurants in São Paulo City

Author(s)

Maria Leidiana Mendes de Oliveira

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2020-05-27

Examining board members

Rosa Ester Rossini; Danton Leonel de Camargo Bini; Larissa Mies Bombardi; Maria Adélia Aparecida de Souza

• Advisor: Rosa Ester Rossini

Abstract

By Leandro Mendes de Oliveira This research aims to discuss the Compensatory Policies to fight hunger, represented here by the Use of the Territory according to the Municipal Supply Program based on the operation of community restaurants in the city of São Paulo. The right to food is fundamental to the maintenance of life; therefore, essential to existence. The concern with the efficiency of this policy under analysis regarding the resolution of such a serious problem is highlighted. Hunger is not seen as a structural issue, in its essence, so, is inferred here as the reason why it is still a taboo for our civilization, besides that it is concealed and treated metaphorically. It is important to emphasize that its causes are, for many, distant and difficult to understand, since in theory, technology would end it; however, its aggravation is what occurs. On the one hand, there is the disproportionate distribution of income and on the other, the drama that implies the deaths of people. In this way it is possible to understand the importance of discussing this problem. Josué de Castro, who was the pioneer of studies on food and nutrition in Brazil decades ago, teaches us that hunger is the perverse result of social and production relations. In view of this reflection, it is understood that compensatory policies do not solve the core of the problem, but convert it into actions to contain and not to end hunger and inequality. (AU)