Food insecurity, health and justice Francisco Carlos Bernal, Renata Salgado Leme

Abstract

This article proposes to demonstrate the interconnection of economic and social justice with food insecurity, hunger and their impacts on the health of the population. The article presents a brief exposition of Aristotle and John Rawls in relation to economic and social justice. Below we bring a brief account of the current situation of hunger and food insecurity in the world, in Brazil and its impacts on the health of the population.This work used the exploratory-narrative and secondarily historical method.