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MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND FIGHT AGAINST
HUNGER - MDS
October, 2008 Rome/Italy
ROSILENE CRISTINA ROCHA
Deputy Executive Secretary
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Brazil
Area 8.5 million Km2 (26 states, 1 Federal
District and 5564 municipalities) Population
186.3 million people (IBGE -
2007) Nominal GDP US 1,067,325.00 (Estimate)
R 2.322.818,00 (IBGE BC/Annual
Report 2006) Gini Index 0,562
(CPS/IBRE/FGV
2007) Estimate of Poor Families 11.102.764
(IPEA 2004) Average number of people per
household 3,55 people Urban 3,47
people Rural 3,82 people (IBGE - 2007)
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ZERO HUNGER

• Multisectorial strategy from the Federal
  Government which is based on the Human Right to
  Adequate Food

• It integrates various programs and actions,
  allowing a greater synergy among the public
  policies
• It creates the bases for the promotion of Food
  and Nutrition Security
• It contributes to the eradication of the extreme
  poverty and to the citizenship acquisition by the
  most vulnerable to hunger population
• It articulates emancipation actions with
  measures that ensure rights, facing the false
  dichotomy structuring policies versus emergency
  measures
• It promotes the civil society control and
  participation in the elaboration and monitoring
  of the social policies
• It focus on the family, giving special attention
  to the territory issue.

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Access to Food Bolsa Família School meal
(PNAE) Cisterns Low-income restaurants Urban
Agriculture / Community Gardens Food Banks Food
to specific population groups Healthy food /
Promotion of healthy habits Distribution of
Vitamin A and Iron Food and nutrition for the
indigenous peoples Food and nutrition
education SISVAN Workers Food Program
(PAT) Unburdened basic food basket
Strengthening of Family Agriculture PRONAF Family
Agriculture Insurance Crop Insurance More
Food Acquisition of food (PAA)
ZERO HUNGER
Income generation Social and professional
qualification Solidarity economy and productive
inclusion CONSADs Productive organization of the
poor communities (PRODUZIR) Development of
garbage collectors cooperatives Oriented
productive microcredit

• Articulation, social mobilization and control
• Social control councils
• Citizenship education and social mobilization
• Training for the public agents
• Mobilizations and donations
• Partnerships with companies and entities

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Law 11.346, 09/15/2006 LOSAN

• It creates the National System on Food and
  Nutrition Security (SISAN) to ensure the Human
  Right to Adequate Food (DHAA) in Brazil
• It reaffirms the States duties to respect,
  protect, promote and offer adequate food
• Tools for monitoring and chargeability of the
  DHAAs
• It institutionalizes the National Policy on Food
  and Nutrition Security.

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
Family Agriculture

• Food Acquisition Program of the Family
  Agriculture PAA

• To contribute to ensure the access to food in
  good quantities, good quality and regularly for
  the population in situation of food and nutrition
  insecurity.
• Direct beneficiaries Family farmers, including
  rural extractors, quilombolas, people in
  settlements, indigenous communities and rural
  people that live alongside rivers.

• Food Acquisition Program of the Family
  Agriculture PAA/ Milk
• To offer milk to families in situation of food
  and nutrition insecurity and to promote the
  family production of milk.
• Amount
• 2003 US 91 million - (39.500 people)
• 2007 US 168 million (8,7 million people)
• 2008 US 15 million - (11,4 million people at
  the moment).

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Urban Agriculture / Community Gardens

• To consolidate in Brazil the urban and periurban
  agriculture, in order to increase the self-supply
  of food for the families and communities
  involved.
• To increase the urban supply of vegetables,
  promoting the food and nutrition security, with
  productive social inclusion and ecological
  awareness.
• They benefit 806 thousand families in 4.852
  units.
• Food Banks
• To promote the food education, discouraging food
  waste and acknowledging their nutritional
  value.
• A large network of supply and entities for social
  assistance.
• The resource applied between 2003 and 2007 was
  equal to US 8,3 million, consolidating 88 units,
  and 18 states, 55 in operation. Average donation
  equal to 600 tons/month.

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Low-income restaurants

• To increase the supply of nutritional food to the
  low-income population, at low prices
• Priority assistance low-income workers,
  unemployed, students, aging people and
  populations in situation of risk in the urban
  centres and suburban areas.
• The resource used between 2003 and 2007 was equal
  to US 70 million, consolidating 121 units, and
  25 states, 52 in operation. Average 1,5 million
  meals/month.
• Community Kitchens
• To increase the supply of adequate food to the
  low-income population and to contribute to the
  reduction of the number of people in situation of
  food and nutrition insecurity.
• They offer support to the food supply in the
  suburban areas where there is a great lack of
  food.
• The resource used between 2003 and 2007 was
  equal to US 16 million, consolidating 624 units,
  and 20 states, 337 in operation.

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Cisterns

• The access to fresh water, the most fundamental
  food.
• Objective To support states, municipalities,
  federal organs and civil society entities in the
  implementation of projects that aim at ensuring
  the access to fresh water by means of the
  construction of cisterns.
• The cisterns collect and store the rainwater, by
  means of pipes (water for consumption and
  production of food).
• Beneficiaries low-income families in the
  Brazilian Northeast region.
• In 2003, US 16 million were used in the
  construction of 6.553 cisterns.
• This year, US 25 million were used so far in
  the construction of 9.076 cisterns.
• Between 2003-2008, 203.750 cisterns were built,
  benefiting more than 1 million people.

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Distribution of Food Baskets

• The action of distribution of food to specific
  populations delivers, for free, food baskets in
  order to fight against hunger, to families in
  situation of food and nutrition insecurity.
• Destined to indigenous communities, remaining
  communities of quilombolas, communities of
  terreros, people in settlements who are waiting
  for a land reform and who were affected by the
  construction of dams, and municipalities in
  situation of emergency and/or public calamity.
• Identification of food insecurity by the
  beneficiary families of the program
• The risk of food insecurity with hunger, the
  worst situation of food insecurity, dropped 30
  due to the distribution of food baskets.
• Food security increased 41.
• The risk of food insecurity with hunger, the
  worst situation, was completely eradicated in, at
  least, four communities.

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Food and Nutrition Education

To promote food and nutrition education, aiming
at offering adequate and healthy food, in a way
that encourages the autonomy of the individual
and the social mobilization, respecting the
cultural and regional characteristics of the
different social and ethnical groups, under the
perspective of SAN and the guarantee of the
DHAA.
Actions

• Brazil Kitchen
• The project aims at offering courses of how to
  avoid and reduce food waste
• Public Convocation (public announcement)
  support to state and municipal initiatives.
• Objective to select projects based on clear
  criteria, in order to support local initiatives,
  respecting the culture and the food diversity in
  the educational actions.
• Distribution of educational materials

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FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• Consortiums for Food Security and Local
  Development - CONSAD

• Regional organization of the poor municipalities,
  with cultural, social and economic identity,
  constituted as a civil association without profit
  purposes.
• Objectives of the Policy on Local Development and
  Food Security
• To develop and consolidate the organization of
  the community with the public powers in the
  territory, potentiating their ability of being
  the protagonist of the social and economic
  development in the region, by means of the
  institutional articulation, training in
  management of social policies, strategic planning
  and citizenship participation
• Implementation of regional productive projects
  by means of the decentralization of the federal
  public resources, with the contribution from the
  states and municipalities.
• 40 units

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INCOME TRANSFER

• Bolsa Família Program

• Conditioned income transfer program (health and
  education), destined to the fight against
  poverty
• It exists in every Brazilian municipality
  (5.564)
• It benefits 11 million poor families 45
  million people, that is to say, ¼ of the
  Brazilian population, with monthly income of up
  to US 71,00 (R 120) per capita
• In 2008, around US 6,2 billion (R 10,4
  billion) will be transferred directly to the
  families
• Average benefit equal to US 45,00 (R 75) per
  family
• Single Registry of the Social Programs -
  CADÚNICO
• The database is a tool for planning and
  management of the social programs and the public
  policies in every government level.

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THE IMPACTS OF THE BOLSA FAMÍLIA PROGRAM

• Nutrition Call, 2006

• The inclusion in the Bolsa Família Program
  reduces the risk of chronic malnutrition in
  children, especially for the beneficiary children
  among 6 and 11 months, to whom the risk is 62,1
  lower.
• The main use of the benefit received by the
  families is directed to food
• 86 report an improvement in the eating habits of
  the family
• 73 report that the variety of food consumed has
  increased
• 93 of the beneficiary children eat 3 or more
  meals a day

Source Data UFF/UFBA, 2006

• Among the families surveyed, the money received
  from the program was spent with
• Food (76,4)
• School materials (11,1) and
• Clothes and shoes (5,4).
• Source Survey with the PBF beneficiaries on the
  Conditions of Food and Nutrition Security.
  April/2006

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Results Implementation of the Right to Food in
Brazil

• Brazil has already achieved the Millennium
  Development Goal to reduce by half the extreme
  poverty. That goal was defined by the United
  Nations, to be achieved until 2015 (goal 1). The
  goal was changed to a reduction of ¼ until 2015
• 1992 11,73 of the population used to live with
  less than US1 per day
• 2006 4,69 of the population used to live with
  less than US1 per day
• 14 million Brazilians were taken out of extreme
  poverty since 2003

• In the tropical Semiarid region, between 1996
  and 2005, the child malnutrition was reduced by
  63. According to a 2005 study, the impact of the
  Bolsa Família Program to reduce the child
  malnutrition was equal to 30 for all children,
  with an even greater effect of 62 for all
  children between 6 and 11 months.
• For the first time, Brazil has achieved a human
  development index of 0.8 - to be inserted into
  the group of countries that have a high level of
  development, according to UNDP.

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ROSILENE CRISTINA ROCHA DEPUTY EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY TELEPHONES 55 61 3433-1087/1088
E-MAIL rosilene.rocha_at_mds.gov.br