This dissertation is a study of the ambit of the right to food as it is contained in the South African Bill of Rights and the steps needed to realise the right. Existing and potential food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition provide the social context for this research. The rationale for conducting the research is primarily two-fold. Firstly, the access to sufficient food is an indispensable right for everyone living in this country. Secondly, the right to food in South Africa has not been subject to extensive academic study to date. Socio-economic rights are fully justiciable rights in this country, equally worthy of protection as civil and political rights. Furthermore, socio-economic rights (like the right to food) are interdependent with civil and political rights: neither category can meaningful exist without realisation of the other. The right to sufficient food is found in section 27(1)(b) of the South African Constitution. Children have the additional right to basic nutrition in terms of section 28(1)(c). The right to sufficient food is subject to the internal limitation of section 27(2) that the state must take reasonable measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of the right. Furthermore, as with all rights in the Bill of Rights, both these rights are subject to the general limitations clause found in section 36. There is international law authority in various human rights instruments for the protection of the right to food and what the right entails. In accordance with section 39 of the Constitution, such international law must be considered when interpreting the right to food. It is argued that a generous and broad interpretation of food rights in the Constitution is called for. Existing legislation, state policies and programmes are analysed in order to gauge whether the state is adequately meeting its right to food obligations. Furthermore, the state’s food programmes must meet the just administrative action requirements of lawfulness, reasonableness and procedural fairness of section 33 of the Constitution and comply with the Promotion of Just Administrative Justice Act. The dissertation analyses the disparate and unco-ordinated food and law policies in existence, albeit that the National Food Security Draft Bill offers the hope of some improvement. Particular inadequacies highlighted in the state’s response to the country’s food challenges are a lack of any feeding schemes in high schools and insufficient food provision in emergency situations. Social assistance grants available in terms of the Social Assistance Act are considered due to their potential to make food available to grant recipients. On the one hand there is shown to be a lack of social assistance for unemployed people who do not qualify for any form of social grant. On the other hand, whilst presently underutilised and not always properly administered, social relief of distress grants are shown to have the potential to improve access to sufficient food for limited periods of time. Other suggested means of improving access to sufficient food are income generation strategies, the introduction of a basic income grant and the creation of food framework legislation. When people are denied their food rights, this research calls for creative judicial remedies as well as effective enforcement of such court orders. However, it is argued that education on what the right to food entails is a precondition for people to seek legal recourse to protect their right to food. Due to a lack of case authority on food itself, guidance is sought from the findings of South Africa’s Constitutional Court in analogous socio-economic rights challenges. Through this analysis this dissertation considers the way forward, either in terms of direct court action or via improved access to other rights which will improve food access.

In the past, human rights have often been studied as philosophical or legal concepts. In this thesis, Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis is adopted to examine them as social practices, specifically focusing on the human right to food. This is done through a discursive analysis of a corpus of documents drawn from FIAN International, a human rights organization advocating for the human right to food, and La Via Campesina, an international peasant organization which also aims to realize the right to food but is not itself a human rights organization. Findings highlight how each of the organizations define the right to food, and show that these differences are tied to the structure of the organizations themselves. This suggests that human rights organizations such as FIAN are more constrained by their need to balance legitimacy and programmatic visions than are other types of organizations in the struggle for meaningful social change.

"The interest in food and its impact on, and relationship with, overall development only came in the late 1990s with the World Food Summit in Rome in 1996. It was only in this period that "food insecurity" was pinpointed as the root cause of underdevelopment-related problems. The causes for "food insecurity" themselves were identified and lack of food as such was not among the first problems: discrimination, misconceived policies and many others were. Even then food security issues were linked with poverty reduction and development as a whole, making food mainly a development issue and thus considering that dealing with one meant dealing with the other. This led to the adoption of what we now call Poverty Reducation Strategy Papers, ideas that first were initiated in the late 1990s. The adoption of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers came about as a result of the growing need for a concise, target-oriented and country-specific policy for development. They have as a key objective to "develop and implement more effective strategies to fight poverty". Still, these PRSPs are a result of long studies on "effective strategies" that stretch along many years. The what, why and when of PRSPs will be seen in detail in the following sections of this paper. One of the major areas in which most of the PRSPs focus upon, is the reduction of food insecurity. The objective of this paper is to assess just how effective these papers have been in doing so and what is the future, immediate and long term, of these papers. Is it enough to address food security issues along with poverty reduction strategies when the effectiveness of the strategies themselves is still in doubt? The paper seeks to answer this question. To this effect, the history of the right to food in the United Nations human rights system, as well as the African human right system, is outlined in greater datail. The right to food as it stands now and the current understanding of "right to food" is then set out. In order to show the relationship between food, poverty and poverty reduction strategy papers, the reasons and events preceding the creation of PRSPs will be summarized. The next step is to analyze whether PRSPs properly integrates the "current understanding" of food, food insecurity and right to food (why/why not?). In particular two examples of approaches to the right to food will be examined: the Ethiopian and the South African examples, in order to provide a comparison of two different approaches towards the implementation of the right to food: the PRSP approach as is the case in the Ethiopian example, and the monitoring, justiciability and human rights approach as in South Africa." -- Introduction. / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2003. / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

O presente trabalho tem como tema central a investigação sobre a relação do direito humano à alimentação com a sustentabilidade e os conflitos e desafios advindos da realização desse direito nos sistemas alimentares atuais. Procuramos compreender quais aspectos vêm sendo considerados no processo de especificação desse direito e de que forma a sustentabilidade seria um valor ético e um princípio inerente ao teor do direito humano à alimentação. Propomos as seguintes questões como eixo condutor da pesquisa: O que é direito humano à alimentação? O que é sustentabilidade? A sustentabilidade é um aspecto inerente ao direito humano à alimentação? Ela é verificada nos atuais modelos de produção e consumo de alimentos? Quais são os conflitos e impedimentos da realização do direito humano à alimentação sob o prisma da sustentabilidade? Como recorte metodológico, analisamos o caso da produção e consumo de alimentos transgênicos tendo em vista as premissas adotadas no presente trabalho. O modelo produtivo dos alimentos transgênicos é colocado em face ao modelo alternativo da agroecologia, de forma a comparar a presença dos aspectos da sustentabilidade em ambos os sistemas. Na esfera do consumo, abordamos o papel do consumidor como agente de promoção da sustentabilidade na alimentação, assim como as dificuldades conjunturais para o exercício desse papel. Dessa análise, constatamos a existência de conflitos público-privados emergentes da realização do direito humano à alimentação sob o prisma da sustentabilidade. Em face a tais óbices, apresentamos mecanismos de exigibilidade e justiciabilidade do direito humano à alimentação. Procuramos abordar de forma transversal os temas da solidariedade, da ética na ciência e no capitalismo e da educação como desafios a serem conquistados tendo em vista a plena realização do direito humano à alimentação sob a ótica da sustentabilidade. / The present work is focused on the relationship between the human right to food, sustainability and the conflicts arising from the realization of this right in current food systems. We seek to understand which aspects are being considered in the specification of this right and how sustainability would be an ethical value and an inherent principle of the human right to food. We propose the following questions as a guide to the research: What is human right to food? What is sustainability? Sustainability is an inherent aspect of the human right to food? Does it occur in the current models of production and consumption? What are the conflicts and impediments to the completion of the human right to food through the prism of sustainability? The methodological approach includes the analysis of the case of production and consumption of genetically modified (GM) foods in contrast with the assumptions adopted in this work. The production model of GM foods is analyzed against the alternative model of agroecology in order to compare the presence of sustainability aspects in both systems. We discuss the role of the consumer as an agent capable of promoting sustainability of food systems, as well as the economic difficulties to exhert this role. From this analysis, we found the existence of public-private conflicts emerging from realization of the human right to food when looking through the prism of sustainability. Before such obstacles, we present mechanisms of enforceability and justiciability of the human right to food. We seek to transversely address themes such as solidarity, ethics in science and in capitalism, and education as challenges to be conquered in order to achieve the full realization of the human right to food from the perspective of sustainability.

O presente trabalho tem como tema central a investigação sobre a relação do direito humano à alimentação com a sustentabilidade e os conflitos e desafios advindos da realização desse direito nos sistemas alimentares atuais. Procuramos compreender quais aspectos vêm sendo considerados no processo de especificação desse direito e de que forma a sustentabilidade seria um valor ético e um princípio inerente ao teor do direito humano à alimentação. Propomos as seguintes questões como eixo condutor da pesquisa: O que é direito humano à alimentação? O que é sustentabilidade? A sustentabilidade é um aspecto inerente ao direito humano à alimentação? Ela é verificada nos atuais modelos de produção e consumo de alimentos? Quais são os conflitos e impedimentos da realização do direito humano à alimentação sob o prisma da sustentabilidade? Como recorte metodológico, analisamos o caso da produção e consumo de alimentos transgênicos tendo em vista as premissas adotadas no presente trabalho. O modelo produtivo dos alimentos transgênicos é colocado em face ao modelo alternativo da agroecologia, de forma a comparar a presença dos aspectos da sustentabilidade em ambos os sistemas. Na esfera do consumo, abordamos o papel do consumidor como agente de promoção da sustentabilidade na alimentação, assim como as dificuldades conjunturais para o exercício desse papel. Dessa análise, constatamos a existência de conflitos público-privados emergentes da realização do direito humano à alimentação sob o prisma da sustentabilidade. Em face a tais óbices, apresentamos mecanismos de exigibilidade e justiciabilidade do direito humano à alimentação. Procuramos abordar de forma transversal os temas da solidariedade, da ética na ciência e no capitalismo e da educação como desafios a serem conquistados tendo em vista a plena realização do direito humano à alimentação sob a ótica da sustentabilidade. / The present work is focused on the relationship between the human right to food, sustainability and the conflicts arising from the realization of this right in current food systems. We seek to understand which aspects are being considered in the specification of this right and how sustainability would be an ethical value and an inherent principle of the human right to food. We propose the following questions as a guide to the research: What is human right to food? What is sustainability? Sustainability is an inherent aspect of the human right to food? Does it occur in the current models of production and consumption? What are the conflicts and impediments to the completion of the human right to food through the prism of sustainability? The methodological approach includes the analysis of the case of production and consumption of genetically modified (GM) foods in contrast with the assumptions adopted in this work. The production model of GM foods is analyzed against the alternative model of agroecology in order to compare the presence of sustainability aspects in both systems. We discuss the role of the consumer as an agent capable of promoting sustainability of food systems, as well as the economic difficulties to exhert this role. From this analysis, we found the existence of public-private conflicts emerging from realization of the human right to food when looking through the prism of sustainability. Before such obstacles, we present mechanisms of enforceability and justiciability of the human right to food. We seek to transversely address themes such as solidarity, ethics in science and in capitalism, and education as challenges to be conquered in order to achieve the full realization of the human right to food from the perspective of sustainability.

This dissertation aims to provide a study on the right to food in an African context and to determine whether or not African states may effectively adopt competition law as a mechanism to protect against hunger. The study begins by examining the right to food and the obligations which flow from this right. Given that the predominant reason that people suffer from hunger is because they lack the ability to economically access adequate food, the dissertation examines the obligations of states to protect this right against abuse from non-state parties. In the framework of the food supply chain, this equates to providing protection against companies such as commodity traders and retailers that have gained a dominant position in the food market and are consequently in a position where they are able to abuse this position of power over the smaller producers and suppliers. The dissertation analyses the importance of the right to food by looking at the key role which smallholder farmers play in their communities. This is central to an African based study because smallholders make up the majority of the world’s hungry people, and it is also the foremost means through which people in Africa gain an income. The study looks at the traditional purpose of competition law and examines whether it would be an effective means to regulate the food market in order to guard against the abusive practices committed by large food companies that threaten the livelihoods of African smallholders. The dissertation concludes with an investigation into the international best practices that can be drawn from competition law regimes across the globe, in order to provide recommendations for a competition regime that is particular to an African context and which would provide the best possible protection for smallholder farmers to ensure that the right to food is upheld. / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / gm2014 / Centre for Human Rights / unrestricted

Hunger currently plagues over one billion people around the world, leaving mainly women, children and rural communities in post-colonial developing countries unable to obtain their most basic need for nutrition. The fundamental human right to food is found to be a complex human right involving a combination of both positive and negative duties by states and international institutions in order for its guarantee. Hunger is not only remediable but is highly preventable. Main causal factors of hunger are outlined, with a focus on Thomas Pogge’s claim that coercive international institutions are largely responsible for world poverty. In this way, global institutions are responsible not to cause harm in their economic policies and unfair trade rules in order for individuals to obtain economic access to food and thus remedy their hunger.

INTRODUÇÃO: o Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) é a política pública de caráter suplementar com maior longevidade e abrangência do Brasil na área de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. Em 2009, a publicação da Lei n° 11.947, trouxe importantes avanços ao PNAE, e determinou que 30 por cento do repasse da verba do Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE) sejam investidos na aquisição de produtos diretos da Agricultura Familiar. No município de São Paulo, a execução do Programa de Alimentação Escolar é feita pela Coordenadoria de Alimentação Escolar, que tem encontrado grandes dificuldades em atingir a meta estabelecida pelo FNDE. O processo de implantação da aquisição de alimentos da Agricultura Familiar mostra-se complexo e, em muitos casos, lento. OBJETIVOS: descrever e analisar os fatores que interferiram no processo de compra de alimentos oriundos da Agricultura Familiar pelo PAE/SP entre 2009 e 2016. METODOLOGIA: para desenvolver este trabalho foi utilizada a metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa descritiva. Os documentos da Secretaria Municipal de Educação foram utilizados para o levantamento das informações. Além disto, foram entrevistados alguns gestores municipais. Para realização da entrevista foi utilizado um roteiro semiestruturado. As ferramentas da investigação qualitativa foram utilizadas para mapear, descrever e analisar o contexto, as relações e as percepções a respeito da compra de alimentos direto da Agricultura Familiar. RESULTADOS: dentre as principais dificuldades encontradas para implementação da política pública estão: a suspensão do edital pelo TCM; o entendimento de como o processo ocorreria; a burocracia institucional e a pesquisa de preço. Entre 2012 e 2016 o valor percentual contratado foi de 1 por cento , 7 por cento , 17 por cento , 27 por cento e 22 por cento , respectivamente. O valor investido foi cerca de R$ 62 milhões, e beneficiou 3,7 mil famílias agricultoras. CONCLUSÃO: As compras da agricultura familiar evoluíram, no entanto ainda são muitos os desafios a serem superados, tanto para os gestores desburocratização do processo de compra, quanto para os agricultores questões de abastecimento e logística, principalmente em uma metrópole com escolas distribuídas em áreas distantes da produção agrícola / INTRODUCTION: The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) is the supplementary public policy with greater longevity and comprehensiveness of Brazil in the area of Food and Nutrition Security. In 2009, the publication of Law no. 11.947 brought important advances to the PNAE and determined that 30 per cent of the funds from the National Education Development Fund (FNDE) must be invested in the acquisition of direct products of Family Agriculture. In the city of São Paulo, the School Feeding Program (PAE) is implemented by the School Feeding Coordination, which has encountered great difficulties in achieving the goal established by the FNDE. The implantation process of food acquisition from Family Agriculture appears complex and, in many cases, slow. OBJECTIVES: Here, we aim to describe and analyze factors interfering in the process of purchasing food from Family Agriculture by PAE in SP between 2009 and 2016. METHODOLOGY: This work was developed using descriptive qualitative research methodology. Municipal Department of Education documents were used to collect the information. In addition, some municipal managers were interviewed. A semi-structured script was applied for the interview. Qualitative research tools were used to map, describe and analyze the context, relationships and perceptions regarding the purchase of food direct from Family Agriculture. RESULTS: Among the main difficulties encountered for the implementation of public policy are: the suspension of the bidding by TCM; the understanding of how the process would take place; Institutional bureaucracy and price research. Between 2012 and 2016 the percentage contracted was 1 per cent , 7 per cent , 17 per cent , 27 per cent and 22 per cent , respectively. The amount invested was approximately R$ 62 million and benefited 3,7 thousand of family farmers. CONCLUSION: The purchases of family agriculture have evolved, but there are still many challenges to be overcome, both for managers - reducing bureaucracy in the purchasing process and for farmers - supply and logistics issues, especially in a metropolis with schools distributed in areas far from agricultural production

Mesmo perante a crescente evolução tecnológica, econômica e social que se deu nos últimos séculos, ainda subsiste a disseminada crença que os agroquímicos consistem na única solução para afastar o ser humano do grande perigo da fome no mundo. No entanto, muito embora a maciça utilização de agrotóxicos tenha de fato contribuído para o incremento da produção agrícola, são várias as consequências contrárias que resultam deste modelo imposto, uma vez que seu uso indiscriminado provoca incontáveis danos socioambientais tanto à saúde humana como a toda biosfera. Alguns destes danos são de caráter permanente e irreversível e, ainda, não totalmente conhecidos e dimensionáveis, relacionados também ao emprego desmedido de sementes geneticamente modificadas, que impõem outros prejuízos como a extirpação das sementes crioulas através do crescente aumento das monoculturas de exportação. Processo que, consequentemente, está promovendo uma erosão em cadeia, sopesando sua vinculação com a perda de saberes multisseculares diretamente relacionados às práticas agrícolas tradicionais relacionadas a raças e etnias, acarretando no detrimento do exercício do poder diligente de Estado Soberano. Dessa forma, apresenta-se a problemática basilar desta pesquisa, o possível controle da vida humana por parte da lógica imposta por este mercado. Ponderando que as tecnologias empregadas à atual produção agrícola estão possibilitando o controle do mercado através da dependência que cria a estes químicos e a eliminação das sementes crioulas, consequentemente, da diversidade dos cultivos. Ao que, para seu enfretamento, se percebe emergencial o crescimento e a disseminação dos ideais vinculados às correntes militantes por justiça ambiental, que envolvem todos os aspectos inerentes a garantia dos direitos humanos, como o direito à alimentação adequada, que impulsionará um cultivo voltado à alimentação saudável, livre de agroquímicos e tecnologias de modificação genética em larga escala. Implica não apenas em uma mudança conceitual, meramente descritiva, mas em uma mudança de cunho político ideológico, propriamente, em uma quebra paradigmática, ante a insuficiência e ineficiência do atual modelo de mercado, imposto mais fortemente às economias subdesenvolvidas, direcionadas a critérios quantitativos de crescimento econômico. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2016-10-21T12:26:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Karina Morgana Furlan.pdf: 1504970 bytes, checksum: 38a8b5bf9925c2551731b3756bbb2a6d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-21T12:26:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Karina Morgana Furlan.pdf: 1504970 bytes, checksum: 38a8b5bf9925c2551731b3756bbb2a6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-21 / Incluso con los crecientes cambios tecnológicos, económicos y sociales que se han producido en los últimos siglos, todavía hay una creencia generalizada de que los productos agroquímicos consisten única solución para eliminar los seres humanos desde el gran peligro del hambre en el mundo. Sin embargo, aunque el uso masivo de pesticidas en realidad ha contribuido al aumento de la producción agrícola, hay varias consecuencias contrarias que resultan de este modelo impuesto, ya que su uso indiscriminado provoca daño ambiental incalculable a la salud humana y toda la biosfera . Parte de este daño es permanente e irreversible, y que además no se conoce totalmente y escalable, también relacionado con el uso excesivo de semillas modificadas genéticamente, que imponen otras pérdidas como la extirpación de las semillas nativas a través de la cada vez mayor de los monocultivos de exportación. Proceso, por lo tanto, está promoviendo una erosión de la cadena, levantando su conexión con la pérdida del conocimiento de siglos de antigüedad directamente relacionada con las prácticas agrícolas tradicionales relacionados con la raza y el origen étnico, lo que resulta en detrimento del ejercicio de la facultad diligente de estado soberano. Por lo tanto, se presenta el problema básico de esta investigación, el posible control de la vida humana desde la lógica impuesta por este mercado. Teniendo en cuenta que las tecnologías empleadas para la producción agrícola actual están permitiendo el control del mercado a través de la dependencia que crea estos productos químicos y la eliminación de las semillas nativas, de ahí la diversidad de los cultivos. Para eso para su afrontamiento, es el crecimiento de emergencia clara y la propagación de los ideales vinculados a militantes actuales de la justicia ambiental, involucrando a todos los aspectos de la garantía de los derechos humanos, como el derecho a una alimentación adecuada, lo que aumentará la una frente a la creciente comida sana, libre de productos químicos y tecnologías de modificación genética a gran escala. Esto implica no sólo un cambio conceptual, meramente descriptivo, sino en un cambio de política ideológica en la naturaleza misma, en una ruptura paradigmática, antes del fallo y la ineficiencia del modelo de mercado actual con más fuerza impuesta a las economías subdesarrolladas, dirigido a criterios cuantitativos el crecimiento económico.

Submitted by Franciele Moreira (francielemoreyra@gmail.com) on 2018-10-15T14:08:17Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - José Augusto Magni Dunck - 2018.pdf: 7531863 bytes, checksum: 0f9bb48c65b7396626206e0e8638ae78 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-10-15T14:50:21Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - José Augusto Magni Dunck - 2018.pdf: 7531863 bytes, checksum: 0f9bb48c65b7396626206e0e8638ae78 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-15T14:50:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - José Augusto Magni Dunck - 2018.pdf: 7531863 bytes, checksum: 0f9bb48c65b7396626206e0e8638ae78 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-24 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / The assumption is that Agrarian Law encompasses the relation of human beings to one another and to the environment in which they survive. Not only is the relationship between human beings and the environment covered by Agrarian Law, but also the relation of social groups to one another and the environment, culture, political organization, history, economics, geography and ethnicity groups. It is not possible to think about Agrarian Law without thinking about the existence of human, economic and environmental diversity, about the different ways of understanding life. Therefore, it is intended to analyze the systematic denial of the realization of the right to adequate food for people in a state of deprivation of liberty based on this assumption. Despite the high productivity of foodstuffs and the large amount of water in Brazil, several factors hamper universal access to food and water, a situation that worsens within the prison system. The state of inadequate nutrition in the prison system is diagnosed based on the conclusions of reports of inspections of the Brazilian prison units carried out by members of the Executive, Judiciary and Legislative Branch. It discusses the real function of imprisonment in the country, from colonization to contemporaneity, and the role of racial practices in the prison system that legitimize the systematic denial of adequate food, which constitutes the punishment inherent in prison- sentence. Finally, field research is carried out with prisoners and persons deprived of their liberty in prison, in order to assess the experience of these individuals with food in the prison units in the Prison Complex in Aparecida de Goiânia - Goiás and to understand the world of food in the prison, in the insofar as it is subjectively lived by these people. / Parte-se do pressuposto que o Direito Agrário abrange a relação dos seres humanos, entre si, e destes com o ambiente em que sobrevivem. Não somente a relação entre ser humano e meio ambiente é abrangida pelo Direito Agrário, mas também a relação de grupos sociais, entre si, e o meio ambiente, a cultura, a organização política, a história, a economia, a geografia, a etnicidade, etc. Não é possível pensar o Direito Agrário sem pensar sobre a existência da diversidade humana, econômica e ambiental, sobre os diversos modos de compreender a vida. Portanto, pretende-se analisar a sistemática negação da concretização do direito à alimentação adequada às pessoas em estado de privação de liberdade a partir deste pressuposto. Apesar da alta produtividade de gêneros alimentos e da grande quantidade de água no território brasileiro, vários fatores obstam o acesso universal à alimentação e a água, situação que se agrava no âmbito do sistema prisional. O estado da alimentação inadequada no sistema prisional é diagnosticado a partir das conclusões de relatórios de inspeções das unidades prisionais brasileiras realizados por membros do Poder Executivo, Judiciário e Legislativo. Discute-se a real função da prisão-pena no País, desde a colonização até a contemporaneidade, e o papel das práticas raciais no sistema prisional que legitimam a sistemática negação de alimentação adequada, que se constitui como castigo inerente à prisão-pena. Por fim, é realizada pesquisa de campo com servidores e pessoas privadas de liberdade no âmbito prisional, visando aferir a experiência desses indivíduos com a alimentação nas unidades prisionais no Complexo Prisional em Aparecida de Goiânia – Goiás e compreender o mundo da alimentação no cárcere na medida em que é subjetivamente vivido por essas pessoas.