Food Procurement in Post-neoliberal Countries: Examples from South America

2021 ◽  
pp. 227797602110320
Author(s):  
Estevan Coca
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Market Opportunity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Procurement Policy ◽  
Food Procurement ◽  
Good Food

This article analyzes public food procurement policy as one of the characteristics of post-neoliberalism in South America, whereby food produced by family farmers and peasants is purchased by the state and then donated to low-income people and public-school students. Focusing on Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay, the study demonstrates how such experiences partly break the control that large agri-food corporations exert in the food systems of these countries. This occurs because public food procurement has created a new market opportunity for family farmers and peasants and has also functioned as a mechanism to combat hunger and promote democratized access to good food. Moreover, such initiatives can be understood as providing a possibility to re-spatialize food by promoting closer contact between food producers and consumers.

High-achieving, low-income students’ perspectives of how schools can promote the academic achievement of students living in poverty

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M Williams ◽  
Arie T Greenleaf ◽  
Erin F Barnes ◽  
Tracey R Scott
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Low Income ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Low Income Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Relational Networks ◽  
High Achieving ◽  
Low Income Families

Children and adolescents from low-income families now comprise a majority of public school students nationally. As the number of students from low-income backgrounds increases, so does the achievement gap between them and their wealthier peers. This phenomenological qualitative study examined a national sample of high-achieving, low-income middle school students’ ( N = 24) perspectives on what schools can do to promote the academic achievement of students from low-income backgrounds. Three main themes and seven subthemes were identified: create a culture of hope, develop relational networks, and establish meaningful parent–school collaborations. Implications for counselors and educators serving youth living in poverty are discussed.

A mobile farmers’ market brings nutrition education to low-income students

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin Ellsworth ◽  
Jenny Ernst ◽  
Anastasia Snelling
Keyword(s):  
Middle Schools ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
School Students ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of a nutrition-education intervention delivered at low-income middle schools in Washington, DC in the USA, using a mobile farmers’ market to bring hands-on lessons to schools. The program was a partnership between a local farm and university and was funded by the United States Department for Agriculture (USDA) Team Nutrition grant. Design/methodology/approach – Seven low-income middle schools received the intervention, which included 45-minute lessons focussed on nutrition education and sustainable farming concepts. The farmers’ market was delivered via a converted school bus, allowing for full market setup at each school to provide local fruits and vegetables as teaching tools. The nutrition-education lesson focussed on the USDA MyPlate and healthy meal planning. The farm education component focussed on organic farming principles, sustainability of local food systems, and seasonality. A six question pre- and post-survey was administered to 408 participating middle school students to assess changes in knowledge. Findings – Overall, average scores increased from 51 to 58 percent. Nutrition knowledge questions increased from 58 to 74 percent, while agriculture questions remained constant at 43 percent. Both increases significant using a two-sample t-test (p<0.001). This suggests that students gained more nutrition education concepts in this format as compared to the agricultural concepts. Originality/value – Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic that affects low-income communities disproportionally. Innovative strategies must be implemented to increase healthy food consumption. This case study presents such an approach and its value in increasing student knowledge of healthy behavior.

What Boosts Talent Development? Examining Predictors of Academic Growth in Secondary School Among Academically Advanced Youth Across 21 Years

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Wai ◽  
Jeff Allen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Private School ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Academic Growth ◽  
School Students ◽  
Honors Courses ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Engineering Mathematics ◽  
Academically Advanced

We examined 482,418 students who took the ACT in the seventh grade and again in high school, taking an exploratory analytic approach to examine academic growth trends from 1996 to 2017. Predictors included sociodemographics, interests, high school (HS) characteristics, HS coursework and GPA, and extracurriculars, which explained 25% of the variance in academic growth. Overall, growth improved from 2005 to 2017, but growth for low-income and Hispanic students was stagnant. Catholic and private school students had the highest growth; homeschooled and high-poverty public school students had the lowest. High growth was associated with STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) elective HS courses and advanced AP, accelerated, and honors courses. Students with investigative and conventional interests had higher growth. Some extracurriculars had significant relationships with academic growth, though the effects were small.

scholarly journals Association between breakfast omission and abdominal adiposity in low-income adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Raquel de Andrade Barbosa RIBEIRO ◽  
Danielle Franklin de CARVALHO ◽  
Anajás da Silva Cardoso CANTALICE ◽  
Mônica Oliveira da Silva SIMÕES ◽  
Alessandra TEIXEIRA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
Abdominal Adiposity ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Anthropometric Indicators ◽  
Chi Square Test

ABSTRACT Objective To assess the association between breakfast omission, overweight/obesity, abdominal adiposity, and unhealthy lifestyle of low-income adolescents. Methods A cross-sectional population study involving 571 public school students aged between 15 and 19 years old. The habit of having breakfast was assessed using a form, checking the weekly frequency of a given meal and considered as breakfast omission when these adolescents did not have breakfast for at least 5 days in the past week. Sociodemographic and lifestyle variables (sedentarism, physical activity level, and sleep duration) were also assessed. Overweight/obesity was defined as a body mass index above a Z-score of +1, and the presence of abdominal adiposity was determined by a waist circumference/height ratio greater than 0.5. The association between breakfast omission and lifestyle variables was assessed using the chi-square test and a multivariate logistic regression of the anthropometric indicators. Results The omission of breakfast was found in 31% of the adolescents and was associated with physical inactivity (p<0.001). Regarding anthropometric indicators, breakfast omission was an independent factor for determining abdominal adiposity, with a 1.8 times greater chance of having this condition among those who omitted breakfast (p=0.037). Conclusions Omitting breakfast was frequent among the students assessed, and was associated with abdominal adiposity, a cardiometabolic risk factor. Investigation and early intervention are fundamental to change this behavior.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE DE FORNECIMENTO DE PRODUTOS DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR PARA O PROGRAMA NACIONAL DE ALIMENTAÇÃO ESCOLAR (PNAE) NO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO GABRIEL-RS

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 906
Author(s):  
Alex Cesar Cavalheiro Marques ◽  
Ana Júlia Senna Sarmento Barata ◽  
Ricardo Ribeiro Alves
Keyword(s):  
Family Farms ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Food ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Food Needs ◽  
Municipal Level

Through the National School Food Program (PNAE) and the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) the State seeks to deploy a Public Policy in order to promote family farming providing distribution opportunities for farmers meeting the food needs of public school students. The work aims to analyze the supply of products from family farms in San Gabriel / RS for the PNAE and verify the effectiveness of this policy at the municipal level. The research was exploratory and had a qualitative approach, development of theoretical framework, site visits and construction and application of semistructured interviews with public officials and family farmers. The results revealed that the supply process includes few farmers and does not reach the goal set forth by law.

Novos modelos de educação superior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Tavares Gomes ◽  
Eduardo Santos ◽  
Sandra Gomes ◽  
Daniel Pansarelli ◽  
Donizete Mariano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
New Models ◽  
Cognitive Justice ◽  
Access Policies

This book, consisting of nine chapters, is the result of multiple theoretical and empirical research carried out by students in the post-graduate program in education (PPGE) at Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). The object of the research was to carry out a study on the new models of higher education, implemented in Brazil between 2005 and 2013. The studies carried out focus, above all, on institutional principles, student access policies, the internationalization process, quota policies, and mechanisms for inclusion in higher education for public school students. These were studies that used, as a theoretical basis, epistemological models of a counter-hegemonic character and, from a methodological point of view, an essentially qualitative approach. The studies showed, generically, the possibility of building other models of higher education capable of overcoming the elitism, characteristic of traditional universities. The inclusion of students from public school reveals that it is possible to make higher education a right for everyone, democratizing it, in the sense of establishing social and cognitive justice. Keywords: higher education; new models; empirical research; Brazil; social and cognitive justice.

Data Science Summer Academy for Chicago Public School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Bamshad Mobasher ◽  
Lucia Dettori ◽  
Daniela Raicu ◽  
Raffaella Settimi ◽  
Nasim Sonboli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Data Science ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Chicago Public School ◽  
Summer Academy
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