SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR: IMPACTOS NA SEGURANÇA E QUALIDADE DA ALIMENTAÇÃO INFANTIL SOB A INFLUÊNCIA DA COVID-19

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world, meeting the educational and nutritional needs of children and youth during this global health crisis is critical. It is precisely at this level that governments have adopted measures to suspend classroom activities, in line with health sector recommendations, in order to prevent the spread and spread of the virus. It should be noted that, according to UNESCO figures (2020), around 1.2 billion students worldwide have been affected by the closure of schools and universities due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Thus, the problem of this research is: what is the influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on children's food security? The general objective of this research is to discuss children's food safety during the COVID-19 Pandemic. food education and nutritional transition; describe the National School Feeding Program (PNAE); discuss the impact of the Pandemic on child food security. Thus, in order to achieve the proposed objectives, a qualitative review of the literature was carried out in Google Academics, Portal de Periódicos CAPES, Scielo and portal Virtual Health Library (BVS), selecting PubMed and Lilacs journals. The descriptors used in the search were: “food insecurity”, “COVID-19”, “child food”, “Nutrition” and “Pandemic”, in order to achieve the proposed objectives. The results show the worsening of food insecurity in the Brazilian population, mainly hunger. This scenario is the result of the dismantling of essential national public policies, especially those aimed at fighting hunger, strengthening family farming, controlling food prices and the economic crisis, both aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.