BRAZILIAN NORTHEAST(S) HUNGER: FAMILY WELFARE, FOOD INSECURITY EXPERIENCE SCALE (FIES) AND ONE MILION CISTERNS PROGRAM (1MCP) IN THE NORTHEAST REGION AND ITS IMPACTS

Abstract

This present article aims to set a thought based on some social programs there are directly and indirectly connected to fighting hunger in Brazil. This thinking urges from discussions about the impact of geographers in reading, understanding, analysing, and evaluating the hunger in Brazil and spatializes in heterogeneous ways in different territories, said relation becomes obvious after comparing macro regions and the directive of social public policies. The presence of Hunger in today's Brazil is a consequence of several spatial and territorial interfaces, through this article we will be able to think about these relations and interactions, as the relevance of the State and other actors in building, or not, a Brazil that is out of the Hunger Map. To reach our goal we used the following methodological procedures: data collection of Brazilian Family Welfare (or children benefit), Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity Experience (FIES-BRAZIL) and One Million Cisterns Program (1MCP), data processing, and comparative analysis of statistical data organized in maps and graphics, bibliographic survey and reading.