Food (in)security and Family Farming: public policies as a strategy to overcome hunger

Abstract

32 million Brazilians suffered from hunger in the 1990s. To solve this problem, the implementation of public
policies to promote family farming in the country was one of the most effective actions. Since 2015, the resources allocated
to such policies have drastically reduced, generating discontinuity in the supply of food to entities and users of the programs,
losses in the income of farmers and food insecurity, situations aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the concepts
of food security, family farming and public policies, this article aims to understand the repercussions of the divestment of
public policies and the pandemic in the daily lives of family farmers in Barbalha-CE. We continued with the examination of
public documents, interviews, observations and daily conversations with female farmers, whose data were understood from
the analysis of discursive practices. The results point out the difficulties of the workers in accessing public services, producing,
marketing and guaranteeing the food security of their families.