The COVID-19 pandemic caused the greatest challenge of the century, impacting not only the economic situation, but also the health and living conditions of the world's population. One of the most notable impacts during this period of pandemic was on food security, given that news reports point to a variety of problems that affected the population's homogeneous food system. In Brazil, these problems became even more explicit, the causes of social, racial, gender, and economic inequalities, that compromise the Human Right to Food, and thus ends up affecting mainly the lives of the most vulnerable families. In this context, this article aims to address relationships regarding food security by bringing a brief discussion about the importance of school meals and its lack during the pandemic period. For that, we carried out a bibliographic analysis to speculate on the government intervention actions that were developed in the period of the pandemic to combat hunger. From then on, case study research was developed in a school in the central region of the public school system of the city of Porto Nacional -TO. In view of this, the reality of the school community will be exposed to compare with information on the effectiveness of government actions to combat food insecurity. Among some peculiar fragments, situations related to access to income will be highlighted, such as emergency aid, and the authorization of the use of federal resources from the School Feeding Program (PNAE) to purchase food for the families of students who were left without school meals during the period. in which classes were suspended due to social isolation to combat the advance COVID-19.
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