Lucas Barbi, Waleska Caiaffa, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Helen Pineo, Elis Borde
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This article examines how food insecurity became established as a public problem in Belo Horizonte by tracing the actors, disputes, and framings shaping this arena over time. Drawing on historical sources and 37 key-informant interviews (2024–2025), it adopts a public-arena approach understanding public problems as being constituted through interaction and contestation. The trajectory of Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) policies shows that their durability derives from sustained democratic experimentation and recurrent re-problematization led by state and non-state actors. These interactions co-produced a moral grammar that framed hunger as indignity, underpinning the institutionalisation, adaptability, and public legitimacy of FNS policies.
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The Bulletin of Latin American Research publishes original research of current interest on Latin America, the Caribbean, inter-American relations and the Latin American Diaspora from all academic disciplines within the social sciences, history and cultural studies. In addition to research articles, the journal also includes a Debates section, which carries "state-of-the-art" reviews of work on particular topics by leading scholars in the field. The Bulletin also publishes a substantial section of book reviews, aiming to cover publications in English, Spanish and Portuguese, both recent works and classics of the past revisited.
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