Fome : ideologia e capitalismo

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1988

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A study on hunger was conducted taking into consideration the political and socioeconomic structure of Brazil, focusing on its repercussions on education, feeding and work. Hunger is a little studied topic which we consider not only as a natural phenomenon, but mainly as the result of a political, economic and social determination. In other words, our objective was to provide a picture of hunger not only from a biological point of view, which sees it as malnutrition, but also as a phenomenon involved in amore encompassing political and socioeconomic process. On the one hand, we know that hunger exists in alI peripheral countries in the world, Brazil among them, and on the other we know that year 1987/88 represented a great worldwide success in terms of grain production, since approxi­mately 400 million tons of grains were stocked all over the world during this period, i. e. the equivalent of 7 times the latest Brazilian grain crop. According to official data, this quantity would be sufficient to satisfy for two years all the caloric needs of 730 million individual suffering from starvation all over the world. It is of fundamental importance to inform that the community storage sites of the European Economic Community have accumulated the following amounts of food since last year: 16,4 million tons of cereals, 1,4 million tons of butter, 1,0 million tons of powdered milk, 0.600 million tons of beef, 0.250 million tons of olive oil, and that 2 billion dollars in rental expenses are being paid to store this food. In Brazil, 85% of the population earns an amount of money equivalent to up to 5 times the minimum monthly wage to support a full family, which means that this sec­tion of the population is in one of the three phases of hunger manifestation. This is the result of a socioeconomic policy based on dependent capitalism which has been imposed on the Brazilians by a developed and oppressive capitalism. In view of the above, we comment on the lack of action on the part of the government with respect to hunger and on the diversity of the factors conditioning hunger, rela­ting them to development and politics. The questions involved in hunger at he regio­nal, national and international leveI are also discussed. We consider hunger to be an organized process similar to a large industry, which in turn is subsidized by the industries of drought, flooding, exploitation of land ownership, elitist education, minimum wage and direct worker exploitation. Finally, we conclude with an analysis of hunger at the international level and of the proposals presented by International Agencies

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capitalismo fome - aspectos sociologicos fome - aspectos economicos

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