The main policies for fighting against the hunger implemented in Brazil

Abstract

This work has as objective to present the main politics of implemented combat to the hunger in Brazil in the period that goes since years 1940, in the government of Getúlio Vargas, until the beginning of the year of 2005, in the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. For this, it looked for to carry through a previous quarrel on hunger, social politics and citizenship, that it subsidizes, later, a study of the main politics of implemented combat to the hunger in the country. This study it searched to point the main characteristics of these politics, identifying, preliminarily, that conceptions of citizenship – "regulated citizenship", "inverted citizenship" and "universal citizenship" – these politics are associates, besides presenting, specifically, some aspects of the Program Hunger Zero, referring ones to its institucional arrangement, to its structural actions, specific and local and to its institucional canals of participation and social control, during its two first years of implementation.
Key-words – Brazil. Social politics. Hunger. Citizenship.