DIREITO HUMANO À ALIMENTAÇÃO E REALIZAÇÃO PROGRESSIVA: ENTRE INICIATIVAS E ASSISTÊNCIAS NA AMÉRICA LATINA

The human right to food was established as an obligation of national states, since the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference in 1996. To the international community fit the role to ensure that, in the peripheral countries, implementation of control mechanisms of these obligations were created. The question was to ensure access to food and, in this respect, in addition to generating employment and income, are the distribution and marketing of food. These links in the chain occur especially in developing countries by default private sector that largely are transnational companies. This study aims to analyze such issues in light of the measures adopted by Latin American and European countries. Thus, it was divided into two stages: first will be analyzed (un) historical constructions of human rights and the internationalization and diversification of human rights forging the creation of new rights to be protected, such as the human right to food. And in a second moment will talk about the right to adequate food in terms of economic development. To do this, it will present 1 Doutora em Direito Público pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS/RS/Brasil), com período de doutoramento sanduíche na Universidade de Sevilla (US/Espanha); Mestre em Integração Latino-Americana, área de concentração Direito do Mestrado em Integração Latino-Americana (MILA) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM/RS/Brasil). Professora do Curso de Direito das Faculdades Integradas Machado de Assis (FEMA/RS/Brasil). E-mail: aiacamera@hotmail.com 2 Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico/Instituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP/SP/Brasil). Professora Assistente do Departamento de Ecnomia da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ/RJ/Brasil). E-mail: rubiaeconomia@hotmail.com. Revista Direitos Culturais – RDC Vinculada ao PPGD URI, Campus Santo Ângelo/RS ISSN 2177-1499 Vol. 10 – no 22/2015 – p. 46-63 him treatment that has been given by Latin American countries to this question, brushing with the performance of the European Union on this issue.