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The Food Purchase Program: the bioethics' lens on food security

The Bioethics reaches public matters and seeks the guarantee of the human rights among which is highlighted feeding, an ethical debate on a persistent situation resulting from social exclusion. The Food Purchase Program (FPP) pursues the construction of a food and nutritional security centered on the commercialization of the production, on people, on social and on food security of the most vulnerable. This work aims to analyze the FPP official documents, in the Purchase from Family Agriculture with Simultaneous Donation modality as a Food Security Program in the perspective of bioethics references. Using the Content Analysis Method, it was selected as analysis categories: human rights, equity, protection, participation and social inclusion. It was found that this program has a structuring character to food security, showing interfaces with bioethical references with advances on the guarantee of the human right to food. However, there are limitations regarding the participation process of those involved.

Bioethics; Food security; Human rights; Agriculture


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