Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and BeyondBeginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds. Learn more about Jahi and his work on his personal website. |
Contents
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2 Food Security Food Sovereignty and Beginning to End Hunger | 34 |
All Five As on the Horizon | 66 |
4 Multiple Streams and the Evolution of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security | 101 |
SMASAN and the Environment | 132 |
Belo Horizonte and Beyond | 175 |
Abbreviations | 201 |
Notes | 203 |
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Common terms and phrases
action agency agenda agriculture agroecology Ananias approach Aranha Araújo and Alessio areas Atlantic Forest Belo Horizonte BH’s biodiversity Bolsa Família Brazil Brazilian calories calories per person chapter citizens consumers economic effects EMATER end hunger environmental famine farms Five A’s focus focused Fome Zero Food and Nutritional food justice food movement food policy food production food security food sovereignty food system framework Frances Moore Lappé human rights IBGE ideas important improve income increased inequality institutions interviews Kingdon Lappé malnutrition million Municipal Nabuco non-SMASAN Nutritional Security organic participant observation participation pesticides Pimentel policy entrepreneurs political stream poor Popular Restaurants population potential poverty Pratley primeval soup productivism right to food Rocha rural Santoses secretariat Service Points Beneficiaries significant small farmers SMASAN SMASAN farmers SMASAN programs social tion U.S. food urban workers