FOOD CRISIS AND STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING FOOD LOSSES IN THE CONTEXT OF A NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY POLICY IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This article focuses on the role of Food Banks in Brazil as an alternative to reducing food waste losses and as a strategy to mobilize society for the promotion of food security. Based on the analysis of the context of global food and international examples of implementation of Food Banks, contextualization is presented on the importance and appropriateness of projects to reduce food waste losses, as well as the organizational and institutional environment that condoned such initiatives in several countries. Presents data references as arguments about waste of food to
contextualize organizational formats that emerged in Brazil, especially in the structuring of Public Food Banks, held for municipal councils and the Food Bank based in Central Wholesale Markets. The articulation of Food Banks as logistics support of the Govern Food Acquisition Programs of
family farming, as well as the structuring of a local network of Food Banks in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte are presented as examples for structuring a system that coordinates non-governmental initiatives and public initiatives to Food Security.