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In the state of São Paulo, the expansion of sugar-energy agribusiness requires the incorporation of land previously used for other types of cultivation, which includes, with more or less intensity, food. As a result, their production becomes difficult and reduced, especially at the local and regional scales, with special gravity in the "new" areas of sugarcane expansion, such as the western region of the state. Consequently, for food, understood as the meeting between production and consumption of food, to be carried out, more distances are added, which implies an increase in spending on transport and storage, waste and, also, prices for consumers, which reduces household access to food. That said, based on statistical data and field information, I analyze, in the period from 2006 to 2017, the evolution of the sugarcane area in relation to the evolution of São Paulo's production of horticultural foods. In addition, I also present an analysis of the evolution of the movement of food between production and distribution, which allows us to infer about the logic of generalization of movement dictated by the currently hegemonic food system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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