Making the agri-food system work for the poor: the construction of food and nutrition security in Brazil

In Brazil, the use of the terms food security and human right to food were fi rst registered in offi cial documents in the mid-1980s. In 1985, the Ministry of Agriculture elaborated the document ‘Food Security: Proposal for a Policy to Fight Hunger’, with the focus on the socioeconomic aspects of food security. In the following year, the fi rst National Food and Nutrition Conference 1 brought about the inclusion of a nutritional dimension to food security as well as establishing food as a right (CONSEA, 2009 ).