Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
A extinção do Conselho Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional e a agenda de alimentação e nutrição
2019; Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/0102-311x00009919
ISSN1678-4464
AutoresInês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro,
Tópico(s)Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
ResumoFood and Nutritional Security can be understood as "ensuring the rights of all people to regular and permanent access to quality food, in sufficient quantity, without compromising access to other essential needs, based on food practices that promote health and respect cultural diversity and that are environmentally, culturally, economically and socially sustainable" 1 .Food and nutritional insecurity unequally affects the different social strata and is determined by economic, political, environmental and educational factors, among others 2 .The complexity of this phenomenon, a crucial element of contemporary discussions around food, demands articulated and convergent policies between the relevant sectors and instances that overcome the barriers of sectoral policies 2,3 .For more than two decades, Brazil has worked toward these goals.The experience that best exemplifies these efforts is the construction of the Food and Nutritional Security System (SISAN) 4 .According to the Food and Nutritional Security Law (LOSAN) 5 , this system's governance structure included, as central elements, the National Food Security Conference, the National Food and Nutritional Security Council (CONSEA) and the Inter-ministry Food and Nutritional Security Chamber (CAISAN) 1,5 .CONSEA, an advisory body to the Presidency (http://www4.planalto.gov.br/consea), was tasked with presenting proposals and exercising social control over the design, execution and monitoring of food and nutritional security policies.One third of its members were representatives of different Executive branch agencies and the remaining two thirds were civil society representatives.It brought together representatives of movements and organizations from different social sectors and was an important space in which often-sidelined rights-holders had a voice and could influence public policies.Its inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary composition was one of its strengths.An important civil society achievement after redemocratization in Brazil and an example for other countries, CONSEA was a space for dialogue, articulation, mutual learning and concertation between government and society.In addition to its federal-level role alongisde the Executive branch, it also established a dialogue with the Legislative and Judiciary branches and with states and municipalities, through the state and municipal CONSEAs.It took part in strategic agendas, such as: including the right to food in the Federal Constitution; defending the constitutional rights of indigenous peoples and quilombola communities; strengthening food crops, in consonance with Brazilian biomes and ecosys-
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