Pandemic as a catalyst for social inequality: impacts of Covid-19 in hunger

Abstract

In this work, we seek to portray points that are sometimes naturalized in
society, such as hunger in its various consequences, whether due to the lack of access to food, lack of adequate nutrition or even the scarcity of food to the detriment of particularities that lead to this violation of human rights. Therefore, in order to bring reflections and visualize ways forward, we are dedicated to bringing the study carried
out by the Brazilian Association for Research on Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security, (PenSSAN Association), IBGE data on the 2017-2018 Family Budget Survey (POF), the program for the insertion of iron and folic acid in wheat and corn flour,
Resolution No. 150 of April 13 of 2017 and the National Policy for School Feeding (PNAE). These elements help to understand the process of worsening food insecurity and hunger
during the Covid-19 pandemic, in line with the structure of the current corporate order. We know that there are no ready-made recipes to face the current context and reality in Brazil, but this does not prevent effective actions, even if fragmented, and/or focused on reality, that seek a horizon of universal access, whether to food or social rights. With this, we situate the critical-historical perspective as a form and basis for the analysis in this article.