Abstract
This article, characterized by a qualitative nature, employs a bibliographic and documental methodology and consists of an essay organized into three sections, in addition to the introduction and final considerations. It analyzes hunger in the Brazilian political agenda, which violates the right to access quality food in sufficient and sustainable quantities. It discusses: the production of hunger as an expression of the class inequality within the capitalist society; the right to food and the National Food and Nutrition Policy, based on a socio-historical analysis of the fight against hunger and of the formulation of the Brazilian political agenda; and how the structure and dynamics of the current hegemonic food system sustains food empires, with consequences such as the reduction of access to real food, the disappearance of food habits and traditions, disrespecting food sovereignty, and the incentive to an elevated consumption of ultra-processed foods/merchandise, with its deleterious effects for human health and biodiversity.
Keywords:
Hunger; Capital; Food system; National Food and Nutrition Policy; Social right to food