PNSAN: National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security of Brazil

National policy established by Decree No. 7,272 of 2010 to promote food and nutrition security and ensure the human right to adequate food throughout Brazil. Its guidelines cover universal access to adequate and healthy food; sustainable, decentralized and agroecological food production and distribution systems; food and nutrition education; measures for Indigenous peoples, traditional communities and agrarian reform settlements; health and nutrition actions; access to water; food sovereignty; and monitoring of the right to food. It is implemented through SISAN and the National Food and Nutrition Security Plan, using intersectoral and federative coordination, social participation, financing, monitoring and evaluation.