Covid-19 e a fome: reflexões sobre um futuro agroecológico

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on society and the economy, stripping the faces of inequality in Brazil, and tracing a path towards hunger and food and nutritional insecurity. Since February 2020, the notification of the first case in the country, social isolation and lockdown measures have increased as unemployment and discouragement rates, as well as the closing of local fairs, which granted access to fresh food to the peripheries, raising the price of food. fresh and increase consumption of industrialized products. These questions reflect on the fragility of the production and consumption chains, which are dependent on external inputs and transport infrastructure. From the perspective of a subsidiary to fight hunger, access to food and changes in the logic of food production, this text discusses the potential of agroecological practices in this context, understanding that agroecology has in its principles freedom, autonomy and health, dialoguing with concepts of food sovereignty and the struggle for equity.