The crisis, covid and the rice price: Food practices, public policies and resistance movements

Abstract

The present work aims to make a brief historical analysis of the surfacing concept of agroecological food, initially focused on Nutritional Food Security (SAN in Portuguese), but which encompasses other meanings nowadays, such as social, political, and playful relations. Using rice as a representative food in this article due to its constant presence in Brazilian food, connections with agroecology and its social movement are addressed and used to identify food as a political movement. We also address the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in data for the current food industry. The methodology used in this article was the bibliographic and documentary review combined with the analysis of news, websites, and survey of databases. Our final considerations point to the need to rethink the Brazilian agricultural model and the role that small producers play in it and, above all, to the urgency of formulating public policies to encourage the production, price regulation, and distribution of food in Brazil.