Symbolic aspects of food to contribute to Public Policies Human Right to Adequate and Health Food

Abstract

The Human Right to Adequate and Health Food (HRAHF) is one of the fundamental guarantees of the citzenship. Promoting Food and Nutritional Security is a State responsibility through public policies capable of ensuring the achievement of HRAHF. This essay proposes to rescue the process of construction and significance of the concept of Adequate and Health Food (AHF) in the formulation of public policies. The AHF is the guarantee to the permanent and regular access, in a socially just way, to a proper food practice to the biological and social aspects, the dimensions of gender and ethnicity, and the forms of production environmentally sustainable, free of physical, chemical, biological contaminants, genetically modified organisms and based on the cultural reference of peoples and communities. Food have two approaches interwoven: political and social, two distinct categories. The insertion of food and symbolic in the implementation processes of SAN policies and programs, seems to have highlighted the importance of the origin and cultural identity of foods for the fulfillment of HRAHF. It is essential to continue building an epistemological debate that incorporates the interdisciplinary, complex, intersectional and intercultural premise of food with the fields of knowledge that configure it.