Abstract
Food security is a concept under permanent construction, and the meanings attributed to it reflect historical circumstances and the appropriation made by different social actors. In Brazil, the debate on food security gained traction in the 1990s and was largely influenced by organized civil society. In this sense, the creation of participatory institutions in the country linked to food security was essential for the formulation of public policies in the area to encompass meanings and demands mobilized by Brazilian civil society. However, after the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016, and more intensely since 2019, social participation was weakened in the Brazilian political process, which can be exemplified in the area of food security by the extinction of the National Council for Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA) and the discontinuation of the National Conferences on Food and Nutrition Security (CNSANs), spaces which were largely influential in the construction of public policies that helped Brazil leave the FAO Hunger Map in 2014. Based on the readings on the construction of social problems and on the concept of public arenas, this proposal will analyze how the restriction of the institutional space for civil society participation has undermined the representation of its interests in the construction, implementation and monitoring of public policies of food security. We understand this dismantling as a strategic reconfiguration in the composition of actors capable of influencing the construction of the problem of food security in Brazil, and, consequently, the solutions that must be implemented to address it.
Presenters
Marina Lobo GibsonStudent, Master's, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
FOOD SECURITY, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, PARTICIPATORY INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC POLICIES
