Food Security guaranteed in the Meals of Public Schools of Montes Claros/MG with products purchased from Family Agriculture.

Abstract

The school lunch is an important element both in the nutritional recovery of children, as so to avoid future problems of obesity. The family farming also directed towards food security and nutritional of children and young people in a school age is guided by sustainability and agricultural diversifi cation in the region, for adequate and safe food as provided by law. Thus, this study seeks to understand the Law 11.947/2009 which ensures better quality school meals from the insertion of the products coming from the family farming and also because of the sustainable development in this reproduction of the rural areas. And thus, show that family farming is an important strategy in the appropriation of social, economic and environmental benefi ts as well as possible ways to achieve food security and nutrition of children and young people in a school age. To achieve the proposed objectives we sought a methodological way of literature review and fi eld research.