Insegurança alimentar nas cidades (original) (raw)

The urban phenomenon (of intense urbanization) is recent in human history. It happens a little more than one century. Currently there are over 3.5 billion people living in cities and are in a situation of dependence to meet their vital needs. Given the physical impossibility of producing food and the loss of the intangible heritage of how to produce them, urban populations are dependent of the systems wich maintain life in the cities. The food and nutritional security of these population is vulnerable in many ways: food contamination by pesticides, food for fraud and difficulty of access to a healthy and balanced diet. The political, economic and financial global governed by the logic of capitalism, which are linked to national economies and employment levels are maintained in equilibrium unstable and unpredictable. The system of food production and supply, also vulnerable to crises and global markets, has its basis in monoculture farming, dependent on chemical inputs, destroying ecosystems, and with predictions of unsustainability. This situation sets up a risk to food security and nutrition of the immense urban populations, the risk was "fabricated" (GIDDENS, 2007) by our society. In a hegemonic social movement against NGOs, Ecovillages, Via Campesina and some universities are seeking to expand a model of agriculture guided by the principles of agroecology, linking the struggle in defense of the environment to social inclusion and food security.

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