GASTRONOMIA E DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO: SLOWFOOD COMO INTRUMENTO DE INCLUSÃO SOCIAL E PROMOÇÃO DA SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR

Abstract

The human right to adequate food (HRAF) must be promoted by the State through public policies, always in order to guarantee food and nutritional security. In this way, dietary practices, developed within the scope of regional culture undertaken by local and regional communities should be used as part of strategies to combat hunger and promote human development. In this same sense, the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil gives importance to development, establishing the guarantee of national development as the fundamentals of the Brazilian State. As a way of achieving the effectiveness of constitutional forecasts, a series of programs emerges whose objective is to fight hunger, as is the case of the slowfood movement. Thus, when gastronomy professionals value, through their art, the culture and the local production of ingredients and products, the local economy is strengthened by guaranteeing mechanisms to promote DHAA. To that extent, the following question-problem is presented: To what extent, gastronomy (through movements such as slowfood), can be recognized as a means to promote the revitalization of culture and local particularities in order to promote human development, the human right to adequate food and food and nutritional security? To answer the question, the work is developed under the deductive methodological approach, starting from the general premise that the understanding of human development, multiple and inclusive, depends on the effort of social subjects towards its construction and that the slowfood movement ensures through the actions of gastronomy the fight against hunger and the promotion of HRAF, especially in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic.