ABSTRACT
Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva's first term was marked by the incorporation of hunger, food security and nutrition as key themes in the policy agenda, particularly after the launch of the Zero Hunger Programme. This programme provided a set of structural and emergency actions aimed at ensuring human right to food and at eradicating the structural causes of poverty. The creation of the PAA, which encompassed in the same policy instrument consumption subsidies to people suffering from food insecurity and support to family farming, 2 was an innovative measure, and part of the contemporary structuring of an integrated food security policy framework in Brazil (Delgado et al., 2005; Schmitt, 2005).
