ACHIEVING FOOD SECURITY FROM A BOTTOM-UP AND INTERSECTIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH:

PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS FROM THE BRAZILIAN CASE

Abstract

Gender-based approaches to nutrition and development receive growing attention in the international academic debate, looking at the multiple hunger and malnutrition experiences faced by women because of gender. Even the critical scholarship has been looking at the issue through a uni-disciplinary lens. Little research has been conducted to develop a conceptual framework that overcomes such a silo-thinking. This paper addresses such a need, by suggesting and exploring the adoption of a complex and holistic approach to gender and beyond gender (intersectionality) when achieving food security. This article will
contribute to the study of food and gender studies by critically discussing the specific policy case study in Brazil, aimed at reducing poverty at the national level through a bottom-up and intersectional human rights-based approach. Concluding remarks on the possibility to upscale and integrate this study with an intersectional approach to gender and law will lead the article to an end.