This Law establishes the Alagoas without Hunger Programme as a permanent State public policy. The Programme consists of the inter-institutional pooling of public and private efforts and actions aimed at broadly tackling hunger among people living in poverty and extreme poverty, implying the formulation, development and implementation of effective public policies aimed at gradually reduce food and nutritional insecurity, guaranteeing people in situations of social vulnerability the human right to adequate and healthy food. Its specific objectives are: promote the human right to adequate food; carry out actions to combat hunger, reducing food and nutritional insecurity; assist municipalities in leading to an improvement in the Food and Nutritional Security Index by encouraging the production and purchase from family farming; implement public policies that guarantee food security for the most vulnerable families in situations of food shortage; promoting access, supply and availability of healthy food from family farming, especially from cooperatives, associations and agro-ecological production groups; strengthening policies to promote the organisation and production, supply and marketing of family farming, with the possibility of implementing training and capacity-building programmes; fostering food and nutrition education in health, education and social assistance services, promoting consumption and healthy eating habits for the assisted population; spreading awareness in society of the importance of public and private participation in the fight against hunger, encouraging joint efforts through the signing of cooperation terms and agreements; ensuring productive inclusion, prioritizing cooperatives and associations of agrarian reform and family farming, artisanal fishers and indigenous and quilombola production units; promoting food and nutritional security; etc.
Brasil · 2023-12-26