"It's a woman in her forties who was born and lives in Africa. Three young children seen as placing a pot of water with 'something' on fire. And still staring as if hypnotized. Soon the happy caracolea steam on the container. It is eight o'clock in the afternoon and the sun is about to set. Uterine sarcoma insists that this is the case. Children watch intently steam. Finally, he ends the dream.

Women turn off the heat and lies with her children. Inside the pot there is only water and stones. " It is not literature. ENT has plenty of information regarding this issue. It is a fact that I read somewhere Oxfam material: use of sub-Saharan women for their children to sleep without anxiety, despite having nothing to eat. The shame of hunger strikes back the planet.

Two World Food Summit (1996 and 2002) were proposed as eradicating global development goals and the Millennium Summit (2000) adopted to reduce hunger by half by 2015. But today there are more hungry. According to FAO figures, the UN agency to combat hunger in 1990 were 823 million hungry and in 2007, 861. In this failure is the fact that the rising price of food has caused a real crisis of hunger. In 2007, food prices increased by 40%, the FAO report. The price of rice exceeded $ 1,000 per tonne (47% increase in one month). And wheat, corn and soybeans have doubled in price in one year. Price increases affecting Mexico, Indonesia and Yemen, who did not have food emergencies. In China, the price of food has risen 21%.

It is worth mentioning that between the Exchange Control Act 1931 and National Law Reform of the State of Economic Emergency and the end of 1989, and above all institutional vicissitudes, there was a strong, though the presence of disordered State social activities, which combined with existing trends, generated in the bulk of the population, the expectation that governments could solve the problems of people. This belief was, and is so entrenched, that explains the little attention they had the proposals of the National Congress of the Productivity and Welfare, the Summer of 1955, as well as the “Rodrigazo” 1975. With hindsight, that can be considered as ingredients of the coups of 1955 and 1976, resistance to any change that would involve dismantling state structures and then showed their inefficiency to solve global problems, although the solved for large groups.

Of course all this is past, and this present, we have been characterized as a stage that surprises the bulk of our population without tools to cope with potential for success. And that traumatic event, not due to scarcity of resources, there is, as the propensity to want to solve current problems of unemployment and poverty, recipes that were effective in the past, and are installed in the collective memory. In this context, we again reiterate that it is essential to take unconventional and creative ways. And it is not to invent new methodologies, but go to others that were available, but the earlier state of things, he had become unnecessary or applied to scale, or were reduced to proposals from any academic or intellectual circles. The concept of “social engineering” already existed in the social sciences as something that had to do with the specific solution of social problems..