Food and Nutritional Security of the brazilian population in pandemic times: who is Nutrition science for?

Abstract

In the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, the field of nutrition has highlighted some knowledge such as the production of immunoprotective foods, healthy eating and manual of good food hygiene practices. On the other hand, we ask ourselves: does the population have access to food? In this sense, this work is characterized as an essay that aims to reflect on this question, analyzing barriers encountered by the Brazilian population for access to food in the context of the pandemic. The difficulty of access to adequate food will negatively influence food consumption. Therefore, it is necessary to assess all the factors that guide access to food, whether economic, political, social and structural, considering the importance of urgent government measures to guarantee the basic right to food.There are already documents suggesting strategies to fight hunger in this pandemic scenario, the main actions being the creation of basic income for the vulnerable population; stimulating the production of food by family farming; provide peripheral regions with access to these foods and the creation and strengthening of policies that aim to guarantee the Human Right to Adequate Food for the entire population.