scholarly journals Brazilian Food Banks: Overview and Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12598
Author(s):  
Natalia Tenuta ◽  
Thaís Barros ◽  
Romero Alves Teixeira ◽  
Rômulo Paes-Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The One

In recent decades food banks have become a worldwide response to the contradicting the coexistence of food losses and waste, on the one hand, and hunger and food insecurity on the other. In Brazil, food banks had a rapid expansion, becoming the object of public policy on Food and Nutrition Security and of non-profit private institutions. Our study presents an unprecedented overview of all the food banks currently active in the Brazilian territory, discussing their performances and perspectives. We conducted descriptive research, aiming to characterize the number, spatial distribution, performance, and modalities of operation of the Brazilian food banks. We mapped 217 active food banks and they all participated in the study. The results revealed the important capillarity of the food banks, which exist in all 27 Brazilian federative units, but also demonstrate the potential and need for expansion. Most of the Brazilian food banks has commercial establishments as their largest donor partners and have fruits and vegetables as their most donated items. They mostly complement the feeding of families at social risk and children served by social institutions. Food and nutrition education actions are offered by all the studied units to donor partners and beneficiary institutions and families.

Smallholder Irrigation and Pathways to Food Security

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Burney ◽  
Halimatou Alaofè ◽  
Rosamond Naylor ◽  
Douglas Taren
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
Irrigation Project ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Irrigation Technology ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Food And Nutrition

<p>Irrigation can facilitate the expansion of agricultural production in multiple dimensions – including increasing crop yields, extending the production calendar to previously unmanageable dry periods, and facilitating production of a diverse array of higher-valued crops like fruits and vegetables. For poor smallholder farmers, this productivity boost is assumed to lead an array of benefits, including improved economic conditions and better food and nutrition security, but results from many irrigation studies in developing regions of the world have been underwhelming. Here we explore the simple and intuitive hypothesis that the benefits to farmers and their families of using irrigation depend on how increases in production are utilized, including whether crops are consumed in the home, monetized, or put to other uses. We use data from a solar irrigation project in Benin, West Africa, and show how the same irrigation technology resulted in a range of impacts on hundreds of beneficiaries. This variation is largely explained by how much individual families either consumed or sold products, and how those changes in consumption and sales then translated into a broad range of benefits. These findings have important implications for work at the food-energy-water nexus, including design and evaluation of irrigation-based projects targeted at smallholders. Importantly, they suggest that historical evaluations of irrigation impacts have likely missed important pathways, and have thus under-estimated the total benefits of irrigation to smallholders in contexts like the semi-arid tropics.</p>

Food Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Jochemsen ◽  
Corné J. Rademaker
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Process Of Care ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Global Food

Today's predominant food system on the one hand produces plenty of food, making food relatively cheap for most people in the world. However, for many people, the food they can afford is insufficiently nutritious. Major global health problems like obesity are partly a result of the present food system. Furthermore, the modern industrial way of producing food has negative environmental consequences, consisting among others of a decline in soil fertility and a loss of biodiversity. Another food system is required to obtain sustainable global food and nutrition security. This food system should observe the normativity of the agricultural practices that produce food. The authors' analysis of agricultural practices shows that the farm is economically qualified but that the primary process of care for soil, crops, and animals can best be seen as an ethically qualified supporting practice that steers the “meaningful shaping” of the interventions foundational for agricultural practices.

scholarly journals International cooperation for food and nutrition security: Systematization of the participatory, contextualized, and intersectoral educational practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 929-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciene BURLANDY ◽  
Cecilia ROCHA ◽  
Renato Sérgio MALUF ◽  
Maria Marlene Marques ÁVILA ◽  
Daniele Mendonça FERREIRA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Online Distance Learning ◽  
Online Distance ◽  
Local Traditions

ABSTRACT The present study systematized the experience gained with the project Construindo capacidades em segurança alimentar e nutricional no Brasil, Canadá e Angola (2004-2010, Building food and nutrition security skills in Brazil, Canada, and Angola), whose objective was to qualify actions that promote food and nutrition security in the three countries using different educational practices. The activities were organized in the following subprojects: (a) online distance learning courses; (b) workshops to train managers, government technicians, representatives of civil society organizations, and social subjects who offered to act as a link between communities; and (c) local pilot projects. The present study reports this experience. The educational practices implemented in the municipalities of Araçuaí (MG), Juazeiro (BA), and Fortaleza (CE) were analyzed based on systematized information in the project reports and activity records (texts and photographs). The analytical reference was based on the concept of food and nutrition education, guided by the fundamentals of Popular Education and Paulo Freire; on the concept of food and nutrition security; and on the following analytical dimensions: participation, contextualization of educational practices, and intersectoriality. The results evidenced how educational practices contributed to the construction of shared concepts of food and nutrition security from an intersectoral and participatory perspective that values the peculiarities of diet in different socioeconomic and cultural contexts, and highlights daily situations and local traditions. They also expose the limits and potentialities of an experience of this magnitude, conducted from an interdisciplinarity perspective and using participatory methods.

scholarly journals Towards a data users’ framework to advance Sustainable Development Goal 2

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Szabo ◽  
Sinead Mowlds ◽  
Joan Manuel Claros ◽  
Anuja Kar ◽  
William Knechtel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The One

Ensuring effective accountability mechanisms will be a pre-requisite for achieving food and nutrition security and thus, advancing the progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2). Here we discuss and summarise the findings of the ONE Campaign-facilitated accountability working group for data users, which deliberated between November 2015 and February 2016, and involved expert consultations from civil society organisations, research institutions, and academia. We provide an overview of the key challenges identified by data users in relation to nutrition and food security, propose a novel conceptual framework within which these challenges should be analysed, and offer a set of con-crete policy and programmatic recommendations to address the recurrent bottlenecks. The paper con-cludes by providing a summary of key findings within the larger context of relevant global initiatives and processes, such as Nutrition for Growth Summit, the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition network, and the United Nations General Assembly.

Nutrition Intervention in the Care of Persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (1)

2004 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-135 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Nutrition Therapy ◽  
Nutrition Intervention ◽  
American Dietetic Association ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Food And Nutrition

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and Dietitians of Canada (DC) that efforts to optimize nutritional status, including medical nutrition therapy, assurance of food and nutrition security, and nutrition education are essential components throughout the continuum of care available to people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

scholarly journals The Brazilian school feeding programme: an example of an integrated programme in support of food and nutrition security

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 989-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Sidaner ◽  
Daniel Balaban ◽  
Luciene Burlandy
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Meals ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
Food And Nutrition

AbstractObjectiveThe present paper analyses the advances and challenges of the school feeding programme in Brazil (PNAE), as part of the Brazilian experience building up an integrated food and nutrition security national system. It explores the role of policy and regulatory frameworks in constructing quality service delivery and intersectoral integration.DesignReview of PNAE and federal government technical documents and studies, legislation, minutes of meetings and official documents of the National Council of Food and Nutrition Security from 2003 to 2011.SettingFood insecurity has decreased significantly in Brazil in the last decade, indicating that appropriate choices were made in terms of public policies and institutional arrangements, which other countries can learn from.SubjectsBrazil food and nutrition security system; school feeding; school food.ResultsBrazil's integrated food and nutrition security policy approach promoted intersectorality in the food system, articulating actions to guarantee access to healthy food and to strengthen family farming. The quality of school meals has progressively improved; in particular, the availability of fruits and vegetables increased. However, national standards regarding menu composition have not yet been met. Regulations were an important factor, along with the policy approach linking food production, nutrition, health and education. Challenges are related to conflict of interests and to farmers’ insufficient capacity to meet supply requirements and comply with technical procedures.ConclusionsLocal food production, school meals and nutrition education can be linked through integrated programmes and policies, improving access to healthier foods. Government leadership, strong legislation, civil society participation and intersectoral decision making are determinant.

scholarly journals Avaliação das Condições Higiênico-Sanitárias e Físico-Estruturais em Unidades de Alimentação e Nutrição de um Estado do Nordeste Brasileiro

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Kaira Cristina Ferreira Araújo Rebouças ◽  
Maria Madalena Oliveira Jorge ◽  
Eliakim Aureliano da Silva ◽  
Beatriz Gonçalves Feitosa dos Santos ◽  
Cláudia Lorena Ribeiro Lopes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Food Handling ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food Borne ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
De Se ◽  
Good Manufacturing Practices ◽  
The One ◽  
Sanitary Conditions

Nas Unidades de Alimentação e Nutrição (UAN), as contaminações podem ser oriundas das diversas etapas de manuseio do alimento, aumentando, assim, a incidência de doenças de origem alimentar, sendo necessária a manutenção de condições higiênico-sanitárias adequadas e locais apropriados, de forma a garantir a dignidade do ato de se alimentar. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar as condições higiênico-sanitárias e físico-estruturais de Unidades de Alimentação e Nutrição. O estudo foi realizado em UAN dos municípios de Teresina, Picos, Floriano e Parnaíba no Estado do Piauí, nas quais foram codificadas em A, B, C, D, E, F e G. Realizou-se a aplicação do checklist adaptado da RDC nº 275/2002, em que cada item foi avaliado em “conforme” e “não-conforme” e seus resultados foram apresentados em porcentagens. Das 7 UAN analisadas, 57% eram UAN institucionais, 29% UAN hospitalares e 14% UAN não institucionais, a maioria apresentou percentuais de conformidades maior que 70%, destacando a UAN A (95,3%). A UAN E foi a que apresentou menor percentual de adequação na maioria dos itens, destacando o item matérias-primas, ingredientes e embalagens (18,2%), sendo classificada como muito ruim. A UAN G foi a única que não apresentou documentos e registro. Conclui-se que a maioria das UAN apresentou condições higiênico-sanitárias satisfatórias em boa parte dos itens preconizados pela RDC n° 216/2004. Entretanto, algumas UAN foram classificadas como ruins, podendo gerar riscos à saúde dos comensais.   Palavras-chave: Alimentação Coletiva. Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. Manipulação de Alimentos. Boas Práticas de Fabricação.   Abstract In Food and Nutrition Units (UAN), contamination may  come from the various stages of food handling, thus increasing the incidence of food-borne illnesses, requiring the maintenance of adequate hygienic-sanitary conditions and appropriate places, to guarantee the dignity of the feeding act. The study was carried out in UAN in the municipalities of Teresina, Picos, Floriano and Parnaíba in the state of Piauí, in which they were coded in A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The checklist adapted from RDC nº 275/2002 was applied, in which each item was evaluated as "compliant" and "non-compliant" and its results were presented in percentages. Of the 7 UANs analyzed, 57% were institutional UANs, 29% hospital UANs and 14% non-institutional UANs, the majority had conformity percentages greater than 70%, highlighting UAN A (95.3%). The UAN E was the one with the lowest percentage of adequacy in most items, highlighting the item raw materials, ingredients and packaging (18.2%), being classified as very bad. The UAN G was the only one that did not present documents and registration. It is concluded that the majority of UANs presented satisfactory hygienic-sanitary conditions in most of the items recommended by RDC nº 216/2004. However, some UANs have been classified as bad, which can create health risks for diners.   Keywords: Collective Food. Food and Nutrition Security. Food Handling. Good Manufacturing Practices.

scholarly journals Health Education to Strengthen Breastfeeding Actions

10.3823/2451 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edina Araújo Rodrigues Oliveira ◽  
Raul Rodrigues Cipriano Sousa ◽  
Ingred Pereira Cirino ◽  
Paula Valentina de Sousa Vera ◽  
Artemízia Francisca Sousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Infant Nutrition ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Healthy Growth ◽  
The One

Introduction: Breast milk is, without a doubt, the food that provides all the nutrients essential for the healthy growth and development of children. Through effective breastfeeding practices, it is possible to prevent several chronic noncommunicable diseases in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Objective: To investigate the relevance of using an educational strategy in breastfeeding promotion. Methods: It was a descriptive study with uncontrolled analytical approach conducted with 36 mothers of children under 2 years of age about breastfeeding, through an educational intervention using the booklet “Breastfeeding: an act of love”. Data collection took place in two moments (pre-test and post-test). Ethics Committee approved the project under protocol No. 058657. Results: Data analysis revealed that 41.6% of the interviewees stated that they did not receive guidance about breast problems from any professional during prenatal care, and 22% reported having presented nipple fissures. Regarding the initiation of breastfeeding, 11.1% of the women interviewed did not knowthe importance of colostrum, and 30.6% did not know its benefits. Assessment of the mothers’ knowledge before and after the intervention obtained a percentage of correctness of 50.7% and 70%, respectively. Conclusion: The educational activity to encourage breastfeeding was able to increase the mothers’ knowledge about breastfeeding and its health benefits for women and children. It is imperative to carry out activities such as the one proposed in this study, which enables the prevention of several problems that directly affect the health of families, acting effectively to promote a solid knowledge for the population. Keywords: Breast Feeding. Child Health. Health Education. Infant Nutrition. Food and Nutrition Education.

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