As políticas públicas de combate à fome no Ceará: o programa Mais Infância

Abstract

Ceará, located in the Northeast region, has had long periods of summering for many years and could be one of the reasons for the spread of hunger over the centuries. However, hunger is a complex topic, the research brings together public policies to combat hunger in the state, the main ones being: Bolsa Família and the Program Mais Infância Ceará where the focus is the early childhood (children up to 72 months of life). The main objective is to analyze the program More Children Ceará, in the perspective of a public policy to combat hunger. Understand some geographers' view of hunger. Understanding the context of hunger in history will cear in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Knowing the past is crucial to understanding the dynamics of hunger in Ceará. We can therefore assume that the fight against hunger will not be possible solely with public policies, because the participation of private initiatives and organized civil society is necessary. The methodological procedures were based on a bibliographic review in which some classical works were analyzed, including a version on hunger in Brazil, and a documentary analysis in which we looked at the manuals of the More Childhood Ceará programme produced in 2019 and 2020. The programmes implemented contributed (in)directly to changing the hunger scenario in the State, even with its limitations and precarious areas of scope, carried out actions to combat and reduce hunger and poverty from investments in public policies and improvement in the support network to families in a situation of social vulnerability.