This Law, consisting of 20 articles, creates as a Permanent State Public Policy, the Ceará Without Hunger Programme and the Networks of Social Units Producing Meals to Fight Against Hunger in the State of Ceará. The Programme is an inter-institutional gathering of public and private efforts and actions aimed at broadly combating hunger among populations living in poverty and extreme poverty in the State, implying the formulation, development and implementation of public policies effective measures that enable the gradual reduction of food and nutrition insecurity in Ceará, guaranteeing people in situation of social vulnerability the human right to adequate and healthy food, with access to meals, especially through the creation of the Network of Social Units Producing Meals to Fight Against Hunger. These are specific guidelines and objectives of the Programme: promote the human right to adequate food; encourage the involvement of civil society organizations in acquiring inputs primarily from family farming, in the preparation and distribution of food to the socially vulnerable population; implement actions to combat hunger, reducing food and nutritional insecurity; assist municipalities in changing food consumption, leading to an improvement in the Food and Nutritional Security Index by encouraging the production and acquisition of products primarily from family farming; promote actions for the direct distribution of inputs coming primarily from family farming to prepare meals for the most needy population; implement public policies that ensure that the most vulnerable families overcome food shortages; encourage access, supply and availability of healthy food, prioritizing the purchase of products from family farming, especially from cooperatives, associations and agroecological production groups, etc.
البرازيل · 2023-02-17