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Present Tense, Ep. 08 - Hidden Hunger
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Present Tense addresses contemporary Brazilian themes from the experience of two characters and the analysis of a researcher expert in the subject.
Throughout the season, the series addresses topics such as the impact of pesticide use, violence against the LGBTQIA+ population, violence against women, structural racism, precarious work, fake news, the importance of Public Healthcare, and demarcation of indigenous lands, among others.
Citation
Main credits
Mac Niven, Rodrigo (film director)
Rios Corrêa, Clarice (screenwriter)
Oliveira, Juliana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Rodrigo Mac Niven; editing, Gabriel Medeiros, Felipe Bibian, Renato Martins.
Distributor subjects
Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Race + Ethnicity; Afro-Latin; Agriculture + FoodKeywords
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My childhood was not very good,
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because at that time
things were more difficult
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than now.
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Sometimes he killed a little bird,
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took it from the bird\'s chest,
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put on angu to give to a little girl
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1 year old.
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We are also going through
a tight situation,
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my pantry is basically empty.
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Raining,
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you will plant your garden,
you will reap.
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You can starve for meat, right?
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But other things don\'t.
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When it stops raining,
there\'s nowhere to buy.
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We learned to enjoy more
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the foods.
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Someone says there is no hunger
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it\'s because they never went hungry.
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Brazil broke a sad record
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last year, that of Brazilians living
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in extreme poverty.
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This situation affects 13,500 million people
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and it is a reflection of the
country that is becoming...
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My wake up time is 5 am.
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5 am to 5:30 am I\'m already awake,
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preparing coffee.
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Make coffee for me and my husband
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and take care of the house, tidy the house.
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I help my son too by cutting palm
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to give to the animals now.
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The routine is fighting all day.
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I got married new.
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Because, at that time, the girls
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thought they had a marriage to live for.
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There was a gentleman here who was rich,
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he had a field of beans.
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I picked those beans, my children were younger,
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stayed at home,
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and that beans we were going to cook
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to eat with what?
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I would soak the corn, grind it.
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Morning, noon and night,
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to eat with that beans.
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You have your children and see your child say:
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\"Mom, I\'m hungry, give me this\",
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and you look everywhere
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and you don\'t see what you\'re going to give them.
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It\'s heartbreaking.
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If you gave it to me, I would eat it.
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If not, I wouldn\'t eat.
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And we ate couscous three times a day.
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Morning, noon and night.
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My son was traumatized.
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When talking about eating couscous:
\"I don\'t eat, mom.
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When I remember that time, it gives me a...
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It gives me something inside.\"
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Then he doesn\'t eat.
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The famous couscous.
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We are here in my house,
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in Itaim Paulista, in the
East Zone of Sao Paulo.
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Far East, actually.
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Here I live since my childhood,
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I live, my mother and my baby Estela.
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I remember as soon as she was born,
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I went back to work, then I was fired,
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then I found out that
she had cerebral palsy,
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I applied for benefits
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through the National Institute
of Social Security
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and I haven\'t received it for a while.
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And, in the meantime, we
had a really hard time.
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Mom is making a delicious porridge.
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You have to let go and
thinking about the child,
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my daughter has one last meal
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and hoping she didn\'t
wake up in the night
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so we can run during the day.
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A while ago, I worked in research,
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my daughter was younger.
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And always informal jobs.
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Due to my situation, as being a special mother,
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I live on minimum wage,
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which is the benefit she receives,
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which allows only for
limited household expenses.
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We fight to never miss anything,
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but I also find myself
in a tight situation
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and that happens.
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It\'s delicious?
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Sometimes you fail
to buy something today,
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you need, because
tomorrow is offer day.
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I don\'t get to despair
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for lack of food,
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because, if we need it,
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there will always be someone to help.
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We avoid these things.
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because we know that no one can,
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nobody has much.
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So we have this part, like, that hurts.
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This is the part that hurts.
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Sometimes we have a representation
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that hunger is always in a distant place,
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far away, a rural area.
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And, in Brazil, it\'s even a stigma
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in relation to the Northeastern Desert.
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When we get the official data from the IBGE,
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approximately 80% of households
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in a situation of food insecurity in the country
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are in urban areas,
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what is approximately the
proportion of households
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in urban and rural areas.
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At the same time,
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which makes the understanding
of the phenomenon more complex,
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the incidence of food
insecurity and hunger
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is bigger in the field.
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But quantitatively, the
number of people is greater
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in a state of food insecurity
and hunger in the cities.
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The first look at hunger
is to understand it
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as a product of social relationships
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and economic conditions of
the world we live in.
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What makes, in a society
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in which there is enough food
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to feed the entire population,
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enough wealth for the entire
population to eat well,
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part of the population
is left without food.
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Another way of looking at hunger
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is to look at hunger as a process.
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From the fear of lack of food,
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until the moment people start
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to reduce the amount of what they eat,
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or change the quality of meals,
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it builds this process, this
continuum, which is hunger.
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The geographer and physician from Recife,
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Josue de Castro, already in the 40s,
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was drawing attention to
something much more common,
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that reaches a lot more people,
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which is partial or hidden hunger.
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People who, even eating every day,
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sometimes they get the feeling
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that they were hungry,
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because, accustomed to a
very restrictive regime,
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They didn\'t even recognize that
they were in that situation.
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It\'s not to stop looking at people
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who are starving,
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because this is a
very serious phenomenon,
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but it\'s also for us to worry
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and look at people who spend a lifetime
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living with this phenomenon that is hunger.
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I know it\'s almost always here.
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When it rains like this, it\'s three months.
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After the thunderstorms comes winter.
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after winter,
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only when it\'s in the thunder season again.
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Like now. Now there\'s no rain there, look.
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More than one month.
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It\'s getting close to two months without water.
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We call there, wait 48 hours.
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48 hours pass and no water.
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But the bill comes to pay.
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I know it always comes as a threat,
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and we get here and hear them talk a lot
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about the lack of water.
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Are you good there?
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one of the fundamental things
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that we need and that we saw need
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was water to drink,
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that we call first water
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of the cisterns from where we
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capture rainwater through the roof.
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And water for production,
which comes from the runoff.
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And your backyard, how is it, Sezuina?
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In the winter season, it
produced well, but now...
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in the sun now, it\'s
not giving anything.
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the cistern has run dry
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and now it doesn\'t plant,
catching a little water like this
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from the cistern of others to water.
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How is it?
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-There\'s nothing.
-It\'s a challenge, right?
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We set up productive backyards,
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installing cost effective
roofs and flower beds
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These beds have
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the purpose of saving water,
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it has a tarp underneath,
so it holds the water.
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So they can produce vegetables.
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They go to fairs and sell their surplus.
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Every Sunday, I was going to the fair,
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sell my lettuces, my coriander.
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It was too good.
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The situation is now bad, because
the cistern has dried up.
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I planted it and there
was nothing ahead.
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Now we have nothing, we
have to buy everything.
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The research carried out by the Brazilian
Institute of Geography and Statistics,
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applying the Brazilian
scale of food insecurity
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allows us to cross data
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on food insecurity with
other socioeconomic data,
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for us to understand better
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how this phenomenon
occurs on a large scale.
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The lower the income bracket,
the higher the indexes.
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of food insecurity and hunger,
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especially families on a budget
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up to one minimum wage,
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and with a per capita budget
of one minimum wage
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We encompass a large part
of the Brazilian population.
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I realize that things I used to do
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a few years ago, the
same value, I can not do.
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Sometimes I have to go
somewhere on the walk,
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because you can\'t pay
10 reais for transport,
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round trip.
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Here I save
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three to four times more,
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because in the market
it is very expensive.
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In addition to labels and tags,
here I get an advantage.
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And I also do shopping divisions.
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I share shopping with friends,
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because it\'s a lot
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and not to lose and always be fresh.
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So we make the shared
purchase of the products.
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There is also a strong correlation
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between hunger and racial issues,
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evidently permeated by income issues.
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So it is the black population that
suffers most from hunger in the country.
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The indices of food insecurity and hunger,
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between blacks and browns, are close to double
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of the white population.
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And also the question of gender, right?
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Women tend to be more affected
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by this phenomenon.
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So, the most intense risk group,
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to the issue of food insecurity
and hunger in Brazil,
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they are families headed
by a black woman.
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In these cases, 60% of
families with this arrangement
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are food insecure.
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It\'s too high.
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Most of the population eats poorly,
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as research by the Institute of
Applied Economic Research indicates.
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According to mapping done by
the Ministry of Citizenship,
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in 2016, almost 430 thousand
children under 5 years old,
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served by the Social
Assistance program, had...
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When we have a special child,
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especially with cerebral palsy,
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It\'s something that no one
knows how to deal with.
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Because we don\'t know
how to react, treat.
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In the first phase, we made
a lot of mistakes in her diet.
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We did the most practical,
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the famous industrialized
baby food, milk,
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that bran.
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We didn\'t know.
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Sometimes, not so much for not having,
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but for not knowing how to choose.
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Many researches have shown
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how mild food insecurity,
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which is a first stage that announces
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food problems,
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is associated with the consumption
of very cheap food.
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So, when the person has
a very restricted budget,
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they tend to resort to very cheap food
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which, in general, are very caloric too.
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Those instant noodles that cost 1 or 2 reais,
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a lot of people have to appeal to them
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to make a meal with this pasta.
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This pasta is high in calories.
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Repeated eating of foods like this
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can produce weight gain.
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So let\'s think of a person who
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first passes through this
stage, from a weight gain
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with foods of very low
nutritional quality,
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and, in the next moment,
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they don\'t even have
access to these foods.
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When you look at them,
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the appearance is: they
have no problems with feeding.
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On the contrary, they could
make smarter choices.
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People tend to blame the poor
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for their choices,
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as if they could make smarter choices
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with that resource that is too small
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for their feeding.
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So this person who has gone
through a weight gain process,
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in the very next moment,
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is living with hunger, with
having to skip a meal,
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is living with a day
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in which ate smaller meals.
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We end up, thus, having
a misery on the table.
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Even though you have a full table,
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you\'re not getting any benefit.
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Here we are starting to
work in the garden again.
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This one is one of the
techniques that we learned
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in permaculture.
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This right here is a spiral of herbs.
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It has holy grass...
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lavender, which I also use in cosmetics.
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A family of basil, carqueja, rosemary.
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and these are the things that we bring,
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that brings the earth to our table.
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We relate this healthy food thing
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to rich people.
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But no... Health can be on the table
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in a good way.
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This has been shown.
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We\'ve had this experience, right?
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My mother has already stopped
taking a lot of medicine,
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changing her feed.
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This is the ora-pro-nobis,
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very famous.
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Known as the meat of the
poor, rich in iron.
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Always pick up with care,
it\'s prickly.
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We don\'t use any medication.
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These days, the pharmacy called:
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\"Where are you, client?\".
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This one is our part of the garden
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which is under maintenance.
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It is made with pallets,
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that we get here in the neighborhood.
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These are the coconuts that we use
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in Estela\'s meals.
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And these are the famous PANCs,
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some unconventional plants.
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We learned to enjoy food more.
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Get some recipes on the internet,
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there are juices that
you make with the peel.
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In nature itself, nothing is lost.
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One of the things that
we also see a lot
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is that...
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the issue is not reusing the food.
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We don\'t know how much wealth
is hidden in the husks, seeds.
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We have a very vague culture
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in food.
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Sometimes, you don\'t mix such
a thing, you don\'t know,
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but the shells are also very rich.
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Due to policy advances
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with regard to food,
Brazil left, in 2014,
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the UN hunger map.
What does that mean?
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Brazil was walking, or
walked through a situation
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in which cases of total starvation
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have been reduced to less
than 5% of the population.
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What we have from 2014 to now is
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a deterioration in employment
and income conditions
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of the population
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that is directly associated
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with the quality of
the population\'s diet.
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So there are already
many researchers pointing
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to the possible return of
Brazil to the hunger map.
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Those who are retired live on retirement.
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And those who are not retired, like my son,
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is the Social Assistance program.
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And if the Social Assistance program
ends, then you\'ll be hungry,
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That\'s where people will die of hunger.
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Because only those who work in
city hall work here.
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Farmers are not paying anyone.
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You don\'t have a job, how
are you going to live?
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Either go out, or else starve.
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And then the job is the young people
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going all to Sao Paulo.
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Here we come with this project
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to show that here, yes, it is possible to live.
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We have a group composed mostly of women
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which also produce cookies.
00:19:42.381 --> 00:19:45.317
We make them see that, in addition to flour,
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cassava can yield other by-products.
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It has been a very important job,
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in income generation,
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because that also gives food security.
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At the moment, we are only
selling in the markets.
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We go to the market
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and, when there is an event,
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we go with the tent and sell it.
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We sell very little.
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Today I only live off of
the Social Assistance program.
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I have no other income.
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Only the Social Assistance program.
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To live off the Social Assistance
program is very difficult.
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I hope that when the factory is built,
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that will improve living conditions
00:20:31.930 --> 00:20:33.498
of some people,
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because I think there will be income,
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it will generate employment.
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The Cookie Club is good.
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The important thing is to make the factory.
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Having the factory, it develops a lot.
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If you have an integral look at the issue
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of food, which goes from production
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until consumption,
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you can think policies in several steps
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of the food system,
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to improve the population\'s diet.
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You don\'t have to invent the
wheel, it\'s already been done.
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For example, the family farm
food purchase program,
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is a way for you to guarantee
00:21:12.704 --> 00:21:14.906
that family farming has a buyer
00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.277
for a price that sustains these families,
00:21:18.277 --> 00:21:19.645
in a dignified manner in the field.
00:21:19.678 --> 00:21:22.447
At the same time, producing food for the city.
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National School Feeding Program,
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if you improve the budget
allocated to this program,
00:21:27.419 --> 00:21:28.920
school lunch improves
00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:30.589
and families can count on
00:21:30.589 --> 00:21:32.991
a more balanced diet
00:21:33.125 --> 00:21:34.059
at Schools.
00:21:34.226 --> 00:21:35.494
popular restaurants,
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They serve a meal for 1 real.
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Ideally, we wouldn\'t need to
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rely on such equipment,
but, on the other hand,
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It\'s very important in an
extreme situation, right?
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It\'s an emergency policy
00:21:47.406 --> 00:21:49.875
which can take effect very quickly.
00:21:50.442 --> 00:21:51.977
Not to mention others, right?
00:21:51.977 --> 00:21:53.645
More linked to structural policies.
00:21:53.645 --> 00:21:56.048
So, appreciation of the minimum wage.
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Anyone doing the math
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what a family of four needs to do
00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:02.688
to live on minimum wage
00:22:02.688 --> 00:22:04.690
recognizes that this value is too low.
00:22:05.891 --> 00:22:08.527
The seed can roast, right?
Give it a whirl.
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We are involved with people
00:22:14.032 --> 00:22:16.234
also focused on this thought.
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I\'m also part of a community radio
00:22:18.403 --> 00:22:19.471
here in the neighborhood.
00:22:19.671 --> 00:22:21.206
The radio team also has this
00:22:21.206 --> 00:22:27.245
vision of sustainability, environment,
00:22:27.245 --> 00:22:28.980
of community support.
00:22:29.181 --> 00:22:32.517
The radio itself combines
permaculture with communication.
00:22:33.218 --> 00:22:35.721
And we also send tips on how to plant,
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make a vegetable garden at home, reuse food,
00:22:38.523 --> 00:22:41.760
don\'t waste, seasonal fruits.
00:22:41.760 --> 00:22:42.794
Come on!
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Bye, mom!
00:22:45.464 --> 00:22:46.998
Bye, daughter.
Good bye.
00:22:46.998 --> 00:22:47.799
Goodbye.
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- Is here?
- Yes.
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Hey!
00:23:15.093 --> 00:23:17.295
Millennium Community Radio there, look.
00:23:17.295 --> 00:23:18.397
East Zone Radio.
00:23:18.930 --> 00:23:21.733
Gisele Mabel, straight from Voz do Itaim,
00:23:22.300 --> 00:23:24.469
resuming activities there.
00:23:24.469 --> 00:23:27.005
We also stop using a lot of medication,
00:23:27.005 --> 00:23:29.908
we managed to bring health to the table.
00:23:29.908 --> 00:23:34.212
Reuse is not the rotten, the rest.
00:23:34.613 --> 00:23:37.115
Reuse is for you to enjoy the part
00:23:37.115 --> 00:23:40.952
that you pantry from fruit or vegetables,
00:23:40.952 --> 00:23:43.555
which is also very rich in nutrients.
00:23:43.555 --> 00:23:48.226
How do you expect young
people to compete with others
00:23:48.226 --> 00:23:50.195
if they don\'t have a decent diet,
00:23:50.195 --> 00:23:51.463
they don\'t have a sleep,
00:23:51.463 --> 00:23:53.298
they have learning difficulties
00:23:53.298 --> 00:23:55.600
because it\'s also all about food.
00:23:56.334 --> 00:23:59.671
There is a discourse of
controlling social spending,
00:23:59.671 --> 00:24:01.506
of cuts in social spending,
00:24:01.506 --> 00:24:04.643
which is very worrying for a country
00:24:04.643 --> 00:24:10.182
had 22.6% of households
00:24:10.182 --> 00:24:11.616
in a situation of food insecurity.
00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:13.552
We need to increase social spending,
00:24:13.552 --> 00:24:14.586
don\'t diminish them.
00:24:14.586 --> 00:24:17.189
Let\'s finish here.
00:24:17.189 --> 00:24:19.391
Goodnight!
See you tomorrow.
00:24:20.826 --> 00:24:21.793
Even though everything is dry,
00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:57.295
when everything is green, Hail Mary!
00:24:57.295 --> 00:24:58.663
I get up early in the morning,
00:24:58.663 --> 00:25:01.199
I\'m going to say good morning to my plants.
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.503
\"Good morning, my friends! Good morning!\"
00:25:05.437 --> 00:25:09.474
Because it\'s something... it also has life.
00:25:10.275 --> 00:25:12.344
The semiarid is only bad a little because of the rain.
00:25:12.344 --> 00:25:14.846
But here I feel better
00:25:14.846 --> 00:25:16.648
than if I were to live in the city.
00:25:17.716 --> 00:25:18.683
I did not want.
00:25:18.683 --> 00:25:20.819
If I had my kids all around me
00:25:21.453 --> 00:25:23.488
there was nothing better
00:25:24.022 --> 00:25:25.690
than living here, no.
00:25:27.158 --> 00:25:28.994
I feel very happy here.
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Sao Paulo is the second state in quantity of households
in food insecurity situation, behind Bahia state.
00:26:00.325 --> 00:26:11.236
In 2017, more than 5.2 million Brazilians spent
at least one whole day without consuming food.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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