Políticas públicas de combate à desnutrição infantil

Abstract

Brazil currently has a set of programs aimed at fighting hunger, featuring a public policy for food security and nutrition. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to present an approach to major public policies that were implemented in Brazil between the years 2003-2009 aimed at reducing child malnutrition in the country seeking to know whether such policies are yielding promising results in fighting child malnutrition in the country. To achieve this goal, the study characterized as a qualitative and descriptive research, whose technique of data collection for the theoretical approach was given by existing bibliographies, among other documents. It can be seen at the end, the set of programs aimed at fighting hunger and malnutrition has highlighted Brazil in the world as the country is closer to achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1 – to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger) of the United Nations, showing thereby that the public policies implemented during this period are showing positive results in relation to combating child malnutrition.