Abstract
Objective: To present how food and nutrition education in schools promotes the fight against child hunger and malnutrition. Bibliographic review: Hunger and child malnutrition have been recurrent problems in Brazil in the past decades, and with the economic crisis it has become a new social problem that will hardly be solved in the short term. Educating healthy and sustainable food policies through the school environment is a way of dealing with the problem, building a bridge between education and public health, in the search for a healthier society and less affected by social inequality. The school is the environment that guarantees the nutrition of many children and adolescents in Brazil, making sure that the low income of many families does not favor the lack of basic inputs. One or two daily meals in school life represents an alternative for reducing malnutrition data and opens doors for the State to insert healthier and more nutritious food. Final considerations: It is understood, therefore, that the right to life is completely linked to educational and food guarantees, and that the school is a favorable environment to promote the contact of future generations with good food.