Between eating enough and the desire to eat: the state of the art on sovereignty and food and nutritional security in Brazil

The article aims to identify the main debates on Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security considering a broad approach and legal publications in order to comprehend the theme in a multidisciplinary way and to locate possible research gaps. It proceeds a bibliographical and systematical review (state of the art) that was carried out in the 5-year time frame (2016-2020), and restricted to journals available at SciElo and theses and dissertations from Master's and Doctoral programs at Capes. With qualitative data analysis approach and the deductive method, a critical analysis of the data was done. The results were divided into three categories: environment; human rights and political-economical. It concludes that the use of pesticides, the counter-hegemonic discourse and the analysis of public policies, especially those directed to family farmers, are approaches with the highest incidence. The scarcity of research on food systems and seeds stood out, mainly regarding the regulatory framework, and water security, closely associated with food production can be mentioned as research gaps.