SMART commitment: 
Commitment 3 - Pillar 3 - Social protection and nutrition education
SMART commitment details: 

The third Pillar highlights the importance of incorporating the nutrition agenda into social protection and humanitarian aid programmes, as well as implementing nutrition information and education actions such as, for example, interventions based on national food guides. This Pillar also includes policies on income transfer, food donation and school feeding programmes. PLANSAN Challenge 1: Promote universal access to adequate and healthy food, prioritizing families and people in situations of food and nutrition insecurity, addresses the issue of linking food and nutrition security to social protection. In parallel, Challenge 2 - Combat food and nutrition insecurity and promote productive rural inclusion among specific population groups, with emphasis on Traditional Peoples and Communities and other vulnerable social groups in rural areas, addresses hunger among specific population groups. Although hunger is no longer considered to be a structural problem in Brazil, food and nutrition insecurity still persists among some population groups. As such, building and executing differentiated and specific policies, based on the principles of ethnodevelopment, which respect the cultures, forms of social organization, ethnic and racial specificities and gender issues, is the path to be taken. The need exists to ensure the continuity and enhancement of policies that scale up access to food by groups most vulnerable to hunger, so as to overcome malnutrition among these groups as well. In turn, Challenge 5 mentioned above emphasizes the importance of food and nutrition education strategies in promoting Adequate and Healthy Eating.

Brazil’s commitments to promoting universal access to adequate and healthy food, prioritizing families and people facing food and nutrition insecurity, traditional peoples and communities and other vulnerable social groups:

22. Transfer income to families in situations of poverty who meet the eligibility criteria, in accordance with the Bolsa Família (Family Grant) Programme service estimates.

23. Supply school meals to 40 million state school children, per annum, including 230,000 indigenous students and 230,000 quilombola students

24. Implement the new Food Distribution Action legal framework, in accordance with the Human Right to Adequate Food, respecting food habits and cultures, with emphasis on more vulnerable territories, as indicated by the study entitled Food and Nutrition Insecurity Mapping, conducted by the Interministerial Food and Nutrition Security Chamber (CAISAN).

25. Reduce by 25% underweight-for-age among indigenous children below 5 years of age accompanied under the health conditions of the Bolsa Família Programme, by means of articulated actions within the scope of the Interministerial Food and Nutrition Security Chamber (CAISAN), prioritizing socio-biodiversity-related production and dietary practices.

26. Reduce by 20% underweight-for-age among quilombola children below 5 years of age accompanied under the health conditions of the Bolsa Família Programme, by means of articulated actions within the scope of the Interministerial Food and Nutrition Security Chamber (CAISAN), prioritizing socio-biodiversity-related production and dietary practices.

27. Identify groups and territories most vulnerable in terms of food and nutrition security, by means of the study entitled Food and Nutrition Insecurity Mapping, conducted by the Interministerial Food and Nutrition Security Chamber (CAISAN), with the aim of informing coordinated and federative Food and Nutrition Security actions.

28. Implement the recommendations of the Food Guide for the Brazilian Population for children aged under two years old, emphasizing the consumption of regional food and sustainable production practices that respect biodiversity. 

Resource allocation:
The 1st National Food and Nutrition Security Plan (PLANSAN 2012-2015) enabled Brazil to be taken off the Hunger Map in 2014. The 2nd National Food and Nutrition Security Plan (PLANSAN 2016-2019) is currently in force and is the fruit of a process of intersectoral and participatory discussion. It brings together in an organized manner a set of policies, programmes and actions, having 121 targets, involving actions by 14 Ministries and an annual estimated budget of almost BRL 100 billion.
Further notes:
More information available at: http://www.who.int/nutrition/decade-of-action/brazil-commitment-22may2017/en/ http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs44/en/