CONTRIBUTIONS BY ``UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS`` TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD IN HIGHER EDUCATION (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The research aims to analyze social programs and documents from ``Universidade Federal de Goiás`` (UFG) of the last four years in terms of access to adequate food and to delimit their contributions to the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food (DHAA). The discussion surrounding the DHAA has become recurrent in recent years in view of the insertion of its concept in the Law. 11,346/06, which established the creation of the National Food Security System. The DHAA was made positive in article 2 of the Law, as a fundamental right of every human being and an inherent characteristic of human dignity, that is: an indispensable condition for the realization of other rights enshrined in the Federal Constitution, such as the right to education. In the field of teaching, the discussion hovers over the content of the Law. 11,947 of 2009, which instituted the National School Meals Program (PNAE), according to which adequate food consists of the use of varied and safe foods, with respect to the culture, traditions and healthy eating habits of elementary school students. These laws, however, did not explicitly contemplate higher education, giving rise in 2010 to Decree Number 7,234, which expanded the conditions of the PNAE for young people enrolled in federal public institutions. Given this context, the problem is presented in the form of the question: in addition to the university restaurant and food assistance, are there other contributions from UFG to the implementation of the HRAF? To answer the question, we used the content analysis of the documents and nutritional guidelines of the UFG itself on the theme of adequate food. As a result, the existence of a direct contribution from the UFG to the implementation of the DHAA in the scope of higher education was verified, because there were publications in the form of nutritional guidelines and Food Guides for University Students in accordance with the legislation that deals with the theme of the DHAA.