WHAT IS THE CUBIC THEORY OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD?

reflexões acerca do parâmetro de adequação, a partir de diplomas normativos e interpretativos internacionais

Abstract

Food production is an issue that has plagued humanity since civilizations of Eastern Antiquity, through Classical Antiquity, the Middle and Modern Ages and contemporary times. In turn, tackling food and nutritional insecurity, notably through public policies, is a recent issue, only noticeable after the Second World War, when, through declarations, international human rights treaties and interpretative comments drawn up, proclaimed and adopted by the UN and its agency FAO, these international organizations recognized food as a right. Given this finding, this article aims to analyze the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and General Comment No. 12, establishing the basis of the Cubic Theory of the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF), an instrument capable of to explain and predict which food and which diet are considered appropriate, as well as which public policies for implementing the right to food are efficient enough to realize it as a human right, based on a descriptive, documentary and telematic methodology research, with an approach qualitative. After the explanation, laws and normative administrative acts in force or not in Brazil and other countries were analyzed, in light of the Cubic Theory, and it was finally established that such instruments, as they do not comply with concepts, definitions and propositions established therein, emerge as true violations of the HRAF materialized in the attempt to achieve it.