MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER - MDS

ROSILENE CRISTINA ROCHADeputy Executive Secretary

Experiences on the implementation of the Right to Food – Brazil

International Right to Food Forum

October, 2008Rome/Italy

BrazilArea: 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 peopleUrban = 3,47 peopleRural = 3,82 people(IBGE - 2007)

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.

ZERO HUNGER

Access to FoodBolsa FamíliaSchool meal (PNAE)Cisterns Low-income restaurantsUrban Agriculture / Community GardensFood BanksFood to specific population groupsHealthy food / Promotion of healthy habitsDistribution of Vitamin A and IronFood and nutrition for the indigenous peoplesFood and nutrition educationSISVANWorkers’ Food Program (PAT)Unburdened basic food basket

Strengthening of Family AgriculturePRONAFFamily Agriculture Insurance Crop Insurance – More FoodAcquisition of food (PAA)

Income generationSocial and professional qualificationSolidarity economy and productive inclusionCONSADsProductive organization of the poor communities (PRODUZIR)Development of garbage collectors’ cooperatives Oriented productive microcredit

Articulation, social mobilization and control

Social control councilsCitizenship education and social

mobilization Training for the public agentsMobilizations and donationsPartnerships with companies and

entities

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 State’s 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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Law 11.346, 09/15/2006 – LOSAN:

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.

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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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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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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.

Low-income restaurants:

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.

FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY Cisterns

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 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.”

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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

Actions:

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.

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Consortiums for Food Security and Local Development - CONSAD:

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INCOME TRANSFERBolsa 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.

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 daySource: Data UFF/UFBA, 2006

THE IMPACTS OF THE BOLSA FAMÍLIA PROGRAM Nutrition Call, 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

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 US$1 per day 2006: 4,69% of the population used to live with less than US$1 per day14 million Brazilians were taken out of extreme poverty since 2003

Results: Implementation of the Right to Food in Brazil

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.

ROSILENE CRISTINA ROCHA

DEPUTY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

TELEPHONES: 55 61 3433-1087/1088

E-MAIL: rosilene.rocha@mds.gov.br