FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY: EVALUATION AND DETERMINING FACTORS IN CITIES CONSORTIUM, BAHIA, BRAZIL
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2018.30001Keywords:
Food and Nutritional Security. Social Indicators.Public Policy.Abstract
Introduction: The Brazilian legal mark for the promotion and guarantee of Feeding and Nutritional Security contemplated the implementation of a system. The challenge of building this municipal Food and Nutrition Security System involves information and knowledge of the situation and its determining factors, that are generally deficient or do not exist in smaller municipalities. Studies in this direction guide the local management for interventions that have greater impact on changing the population's living conditions. From this perspective, the Consortia of Feeding Security and Local Development were created to deal with social problems. Objective: To evaluate the feeding security situation and its determinants in municipalities that part of the Consortium. Method: The Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity, a socioeconomic questionnaire and the indicators protocol were used to characterize the food and nutritional security situation. Results: the Brazilian Scale showed food insecurity in 70.3% of households, with predominance of severe and moderate insecurity (36.0%). The indicators protocol identified light food insecurity in the dimensions of availability, consumption and biological use of nutrients and moderate insecurity for access, indicating which variables are defining the situation. Conclusion: The instruments made it possible to obtain the results that show there are social deficits that compromise the families’ food security. These can guide the management to actions and interventions that minimize this situation, being strategic subsidies in the planning, elaboration, monitoring of local public policies for the Human Right to Adequate Feeding promotion.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2018.30001
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