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Abstract
This work analyzes the recent experience of the “Consortium
of Local Development and Alimentary Security” (CONSADs) in the sou-thern Brazil based in a study carried out by Federal University of Pelotas
together FAO and Brazilian Social Development Ministry. The research
examined 137 development projects aiming to evaluate the similarity
degree of their objectives with those of the hunger and alimentary inse-curity combat. The study shows that the CONSAD can represent a way
capable to induce the proposition of instruments to attend these impera-tives. Meantime, there are important obstacles to supplant, such as the
institutional design and the CONSAD geographic delimitation, as well
as the “agrarian bias” of the development projects, the excessive protago-nism of public agents and the misunderstandings about to the concept of
alimentary security from the point of view of the involved social actors.