Abstract
This article aims to understand the current context of hunger in Brazil. The country, despite being one of the main food producers and exporters in the world, does not guarantee adequate food conditions for more than half of its population. Despite the responsibility of the Bolsonaro Administration for the growing rates of food insecurity, especially in the pandemic period, the roots of this problem must be sought from a broader perspective which takes into account the structural elements of the particularity of Brazilian socio-historical formation. The contradiction between the large production of commodities for export and the exponential increase in hunger is explained by the dialectical relation between the external and internal determinants of dependent capitalism. Food production in Brazil is not directed to the real needs of the Brazilian people, but towards the rhythm of exports. Food sovereignty and popular agrarian reform are guidelines that collide with the interests of imperialism and the native bourgeoisie. Thus, such changes can only take place within the framework of a rupture with the capitalist mode of production itself. Inside the international division of labor there is no other alternative of capitalism left to Latin American countries but the dependent one.
Keywords:
Hunger; Dependent capitalism; International division of labour