Fome oculta e seus liames com a economía, a política e a sociedade

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the main causes of hunger, mainly the hidden hunger, concept broadly approached by Josue de Castro in his works. In this intention, it uses as an example the issue of hidden hunger in Brazil. Hidden hunger occurs when individuals have nutritional deficiencies in their diets, affecting their health and quality of life, resulting in various diseases associated with precarious diet. In this sense, the research will approach economic, social and political aspects that hinder access to food, especially the dispossessed people of the means of production. Furthermore, aims to show how the capitalist mode of production, which has the inequality as one of its main characteristics, favors the expansion of cases of hunger and hidden hunger in worldwide, as well as using strategies that encourage the consumption of processed foods, with low nutritional content, from large transnational and multinational companies.