The End of the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition

Abstract

In front of the relevant theme of the right to adequate food and nutrition, we seek, through bibliographical and documental research, to understand its complexity and its framework as a fundamental human right, according to a critical, plural and counter-hegemonic perspective. The relevance of the theme is based on the serious state of food insecurity that permeates, in particular, the Brazilian reality, requiring understanding the complexity of the concept of the right to adequate food and nutrition, its normative prescriptions and food sovereignty. The main objective is to critically and counter-hegemonically understand the human right to adequate food and nutrition. Specific objectives are to investigate: (1) the foundations of the human right to adequate food and nutrition; (2) the normative provisions guaranteeing the right under study; and (3) the critical reading of human rights and their relationship with the right to adequate food and nutrition. As for the methodology, bibliographical and documentary research is used, starting from dialectical historical materialism and the critical theory of human rights. It’s concludes that the effectiveness of the human rights to adequate food and nutrition goes through food sovereignty, in the sense of providing not only food, but culturally adequate food for the uniqueness of the population being treated, according to a critical view of this right as a human right.