El combate al hambre y el nuevo marco de las políticas públicas: implementando un efectivo estado de bienestar social en Brasil

Abstract

This article analyses the social policies carried out in Brazil since 2003, with a focus on the ones implemented by the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against the Hunger (MDS, in Portuguese), with the aim of fighting against poverty and building a social protection system in the country. Considering the strategy developed by the government and known as “Hunger Zero” as a starting point, the article presents the structure at the base of the current government's network of protection and promotion of social assistance, created to institute, consolidate and articulate the national policy on food safety, social assistance and income transfer with the aim of building an emancipated citizenship. The development of social policies in Brazil, analysed at the beginning of the article, provides the context to understand the establishment process of this network and it is actually responsible for that pioneering dimension.