We work for children, because children are the ones who know how to love, because children are the hope of the world.[...] What we want is for the children to be happy, like the little brothers in our engraving; and that if ever a child from America finds us, all over the world he will squeeze our hands a lot, like an old friend, and say where everyone hears him: 'This man from the Golden Age was my friend!'.(José Martí, to the children who read The Golden Age).The present Collection consists of texts by Brazilian and foreign authors, products of conceptual, theoretical reflection and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean, involving analysis of propositions in the sphere of public policies, possibilities, obstacles, and challenges in its materialization process in Latin American countries.It is worth mentioning that foreign authors and some Brazilians are part of a research group that addresses food, nutritional and other issues that compromise childhood, takes away the opportunity to access goods and services, with losses to children health.The group is linked to international technical cooperation projects, with the participation of Latin American and Caribbean countries, approved, coordinated and