The text presents the estimative of insufficiency of the caloric availability and the expenditures with food of the … families of the largest urban regions of the country. For this, the normative food baskets of CEPAL, which take care of the … about the consumed quantity of food and the expenditure with these goods, presented on the Income and Expenditure Household …

the prices of food and the monthly per capita familiar income were directly calculated from the individualized … Southeastern and South and the Brazilian Northeast. It was demonstrated that there is an insufficiency in the domiciliary food … consumption in Brazil and that such fact is concentrated in the low-income families, in which the expenditure with foods …