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Law No. 22.806 creating the State Policy on Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (Pesans) and organizing the National System of Food and Nutrition Security (Sisan).

Country/Territory
Brazil
Territorial subdivision
Minas Gerais
Document type
Legislation
Date
2017
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Basic legislation Food security Policy/planning Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Education Indigenous peoples Agricultural development Food sovereignty Potable water Public health Human rights Right to food Right to water
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Law, consisting of 28 articles divided into five Chapters, creates the State Policy on Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (Pesans) and organizing the National System of Food and Nutrition Security (Sisan). Pesans, is a strategic component of sustainable development, an instrument for integrated and intersectoral planning of governmental policies and programmes and civil society actions and aims to ensure the human right to adequate food. Pesans is governed by the following principles: right to adequate and healthy food and water; universality and equity in access to adequate food; human right to adequate food; decentralization and participatory management; conservation and sustainable use of socio-biodiversity and natural resources in biomes and other related ecosystems. The specific objectives of Pesans are: create and strengthen actions aiming to promote the human right to adequate food; create tools to ensure access to adequate and healthy food and water; ensure the human right to adequate food; incorporate respect for food sovereignty into State policy; identify, analyze and disseminate the factors determining food and nutritional insecurity.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
leisestaduais.com.br

References - Legislation

Repeals

Law No. 15.982 establishing the State Policy on Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security.

Legislation | Brazil | 2006

Keyword: Food security, Policy/planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Education, Indigenous peoples, Agricultural development, Right to food, Human rights

Source: FAO, FAOLEX