Matheus Porcé

The objective of this work was to establish an analysis of the real transformations that occurred in the beginning of the 21st century, with emphasis on public policies of the federal government, in relation to the eradication of hunger. For this purpose, an exploratory research is initially carried out and later, a theoretical foundation is given for a comparative analysis. To assess the situation of hunger in that period, the hypothesis is that the conditions of overexploitation of work in the pattern of capital accumulation, in countries of late capitalism, prevent longer-lasting transformations in the Federal Government's actions to eliminate the problem of hunger. human hunger. From a class struggle perspective, changes in socioeconomic structures and public policies are our source of study, with the power struggle between classes. And it is for this reason that a socio-economic analysis (production, income and consumption), employment, income transfers and social assistance are then carried out, in addition to an analysis of Food and Nutrition Sovereignty and Security. The research results show that while production levels grew at increasing rates, the productive structure variables did not change significantly, with regard to land concentration. After a period of growth in the consumption patterns of the Brazilian population (more precisely in the Lula I and Lula II governments), the same activity was not sustained with the crisis that began in 2013. Under the analysis of income, there was the same downward trend. after the mentioned period. Within our analysis, the option chosen in terms of economic policy did not prove to be effective in resuming growth and went against the social achievements acquired. When the federal government decided to superimpose the agenda of economic neoliberalism on social advances, it allowed the correlation of forces to shift to the detriment of the working class, and this compromised the entire dynamics of expanding public policies, with an emphasis on universal food. that was being built. After this period, the scenario tended to deteriorate both in economic indices and in public initiatives and, as a direct consequence of this, in the parameters of sovereignty and food and nutritional security.