Custo da cesta básica no Município de João Pessoa/PB pós-pandemia: ração humana e nutricional da população de baixa renda

Abstract

Access to healthy and complete food is of paramount importance, as each and every human being needs to eat to survive. In Brazil, food insecurity has grown in general, with a greater impact on the less favored sections of the population. Seeking to alleviate the budget of families living in vulnerability, the government created the basic food basket, known as “Human Ration”, to provide minimum access to nutritious food. In this context, the objective of the research is to analyze the impact of the variation in the basic food basket on the consumption of the low-income population in the Municipality of João Pessoa after the pandemic. Specifically, the study shows, through data collected from the research department, how the value of the cost of the basic food basket is related to the behavior of the price dynamics of the products that make it up, as they undergo variations resulting from climatic, political, educational factors , social, economic and financial. It can be concluded that the cost of the basic food basket in the Municipality of João Pessoa has one of the lowest costs in Brazil, but it is still not enough to guarantee access to everyone. Inflationary indices such as INPC and INPCA are not able to significantly explain the price variations of the items that compose it. Monitoring the prices of the Basic Basket is of great importance, as monitoring its cost follows strict and systematic criteria. And, finally, Social Accounting can help the low-income population understand variations in the prices of items in the basic food basket, reduce costs through product substitution and improve the profitability of their monthly salary.