scholarly journals Networking and Participatory Research Promoting Quality of Life and Well-Being in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alister Chitetele Soy Pinto ◽  
Ana Pinto de Moura ◽  
Augusto Mário Miquitaio ◽  
Bas’llele Malomalo ◽  
Cristina Amaro da Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Academic Network

Spread across the planet each human being, individually or in community, aspires for well-being and quality of life, according to the ideal of each one. However, we all believe that there are always ways to live better. For many people the measurement of a better life translates into the guarantee of social rights, the right to basic services, good land, seed and sufficient nutritious food for their community members. The Mechanism to Facilitate the Participation of Universities in the Food and Nutrition Security Council of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries is a cooperative academic network fomented by the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This mechanism works with teaching, research and extension in the CPLP Food and Nutrition Security Strategy. The pillars of CPLP Strategy are the strengthening of the governance of public policies on Food and Nutrition Security at all levels of government, social protection based on guaranteeing access to food and family farming with a strategy to increase the availability of good quality food, promoting social and environmental sustainability. CPLP University Mechanism has provided training processes for technicians who work in public policies for Food and Nutrition Security and has contributed to the strengthening of postgraduate programs in Portuguese-speaking African countries. As consequence, it has favored participatory research and mixed methods as a theoretical methodological approach. Therefore, it seeks to focus on the territories of Food and Nutrition Security practices to transform reality, as recommended by CPLP Strategy, however, with the autonomous assumptions of the collaborative network. This chapter presents how local researchers perceive the results of a process of inducing an academic network to transform the local reality and promote Food and Nutrition Security in the context of the CPLP.

Public policies for improving food and nutrition security at different scales

Food Security ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ejaz Qureshi ◽  
John Dixon ◽  
Mellissa Wood
Keyword(s):  
Public Policies ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition

scholarly journals Public policies of food and nutrition in Brazil: From Lula to Temer

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco de Assis Guedes de VASCONCELOS ◽  
Mick Lennon MACHADO ◽  
Maria Angélica Tavares de MEDEIROS ◽  
José Anael NEVES ◽  
Elisabetta RECINE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
School Nutrition ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Eradication Program ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Food And Nutrition

ABSTRACT Objective To analyze public policies on food and nutrition in Brazil, with emphasis on the last fifteen years (2003-2018). Methods Historical-documentary analysis based on a bibliographical survey on indexed bases and exploratory visits to websites of government agencies. Results The scientific and governmental findings were organized according to the Lula, Dilma and Temer governments. They explore the development of several public policies and welfare programs in food and nutrition, focusing mainly on Brazilian Hunger Eradication Program, Assistance for Needy Families Program, National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security, Food Acquisition Program, National School Nutrition Program, National Food and Nutrition Security Policy, National Food and Nutrition Surveillance System and Brazilian Misery Eradication Program. The centrality of the idea of the fight against hunger and misery in public policies during Lula’s first and second terms and Dilma’s first term stand out. Dilma’s second term is marked by the focus on healthy eating, as well as presenting the first signs of fragilization of public policies on food and nutrition. Currently, the Temer government is characterized by processes of institutional and programmatic rupture, budget cuts and setbacks in acquired rights. There is evidence of the need to activate national and international instruments to enforce the human right to adequate food and consequent strengthening of public policies on food and nutrition. Conclusion This period presents an expansion and qualification of public policies on food and nutrition, mainly in the Lula and Dilma administration, with setbacks in the Temer administration, in which continuous budget cuts weaken social, hunger reduction, poverty reduction and food and nutrition security policies.

scholarly journals Food and Nutrition Security in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania): Status, Challenges and Prospects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N.I. Lokuruka
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Farmer Organizations ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
African Community

Achieving food and nutrition security remains a tall order for developing countries. The FAO, IFPRI, WFP, UNICEF and other international bodies continue to provide active support in order to achieve global food and nutrition security. However, low technological capability, inefficient production, insignificant economic growth, increasing populations and lately climate variability, affect food production, leading to either stagnation or modest gains in food and nutrition security in different regions of the World. For African countries, food and nutrition security continues to improve, albeit at a slow pace, although the recent breakout of COVID-19 is bound to lead to a decline in food production, in the short and mid-term. In the East African Community, political stability, ambitious economic planning, the quest for higher agricultural productivity, improving educational achievement, improving sanitation and health, are contributing to the improving food and nutrition security. To hasten the process, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania embraced Vision 2030, Vision 2040 and Vision 2025, respectively. These grand, socio-economic plans bore Vision 2050 in the East African Community and Vision 2063 for the African Union. This chapter examines food and nutrition security in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and provides country-specific recommendations for achieving it. These include investing in agriculture, decelerating population growth, using adaptive research to solve farmer-problems, strengthening farmer-organizations and the formation of cooperatives.

scholarly journals State Plan for Food and Nutrition Security: Potentialities and limitations

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Lennon MACHADO ◽  
Cristine Garcia GABRIEL ◽  
Claudia SOAR ◽  
Janaina das NEVES ◽  
Juliana Theodora Cunha de OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
State Plan

ABSTRACT Objective To identify potentialities and limitations for the execution of a State Plan for Food and Nutrition Security. Methods This is a qualitative research, using as a case the State Plan of Food and Nutrition Security of the state of Santa Catarina. The data were collected from an interview with eight key informants nominated by the executive secretaries of the Food and Nutrition Security Council and the Inter-Sectoral Food and the state Nutrition Security Board. The analysis took place through the Collective Subject Discourse method. Results The main potentialities were the quality of the plan and the structuring of the National System of Food and Nutrition Security in the state. The main limitations were related to the financial resources, to political interests and to the structure of the Management Chamber. Conclusion It is hoped that this study may support strategies that strengthen potentialities and minimize the limitations identified in the case studied, as well as in similar state contexts, contributing to the qualification of the Plans and consequent execution of the Food and Nutrition Security Policy.

scholarly journals Joachim von Braun and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (eds.). Food Policy for the Poor: Expanding the Research Frontiers: Highlights from 30 Years of IFPRI Research. Washington, D. C.: IFPRI, 2005. 253 Pages. Price not given.

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-323
Author(s):  
Ayaz Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Management Conflicts ◽  
Research Frontiers

The research of the past 30 years at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is highlighted in this volume. The topic is food and nutrition security. Of related concern are the development strategies that impact on technologies for agricultural production, resource management, conflicts and natural disasters, subsidies and safety nets, gender roles, and health. The book consists of nine chapters. The first chapter discusses a changing IFPRI in a changing world. The current and future world food situation is analysed and ways are suggested to increase agricultural production and to explore policies for improving production, trade, and distribution of food so that an increase in the quantity and quality of food would be available for all people. IFPRI has heightened its efforts to raise the awareness about emerging food security issues. In particular, its “2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment” initiative is aimed at promoting policy actions that will lead to food and nutrition security.

scholarly journals Food and Nutrition Security as a Measure of Resilience in the Barents Region

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dele Raheem
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Traditional Foods ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Food And Nutrition

Food and nutrition security builds resilience in a society when people have access to safe and nutritious foods. The Barents region, covering the Northern parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the North-western part of Russia, seeks common goals that include the well-being of the region’s inhabitants by ensuring preservation of local culture and social and environmental sustainability. This paper reviews existing literature on food and nutrition security in relation to building resilience and promoting well-being in the region. Amongst the local communities, traditional foods have served as a major source of healthy diet that ensures food security. Access to secure, nutritious, and healthy food is one of the aspects offering greater human security and societal stability. Traditional food has served as a major source of healthy diet, in particular, in the remote sparsely populated Barents region and amongst the local communities of the region. However, there is concern about global climate change and its effect on the region and pollution from human activities, such as the extractive industrial activities, that are detrimental to safe and secure food supply chain. In this paper, I highlight the contribution of traditional foods to food security in the Barents region. In addition, the paper emphasized that value addition to these traditional foods will help to stimulate the economy by creating new jobs. Ultimately, ensuring food and nutrition security in a sustainable way within the region will help to build resilience and promote culture and ecology with a view to offering greater human and societal security.

Developing millet-based cereal products with enhanced nutritional properties

2021 ◽  
pp. 319-354
Author(s):  
Kwaku G. Duodu ◽  
◽  
John Lubaale ◽  
Eugenie Kayitesi ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Nutritional Properties ◽  
Processing Methods ◽  
Cereal Products ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Traditional Processing

There is a growing awareness today about climate change and its expected ravaging effects on agricultural productivity, food production and ultimately, food and nutrition security. Against this backdrop, drought-tolerant hardy crops are gaining importance as significant sources of food and nutrition especially in the most vulnerable parts of the world mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. In this regard, the millets, which are major cereal staples in many parts of Africa and Asia are of importance for food and nutrition security in these regions. Millets are processed into various foods using traditional processing methods such as fermentation and malting and modern technologies such as extrusion cooking. This chapter focuses on how these processing methods can enhance the nutritional properties of millet-based foods. The simple practice of compositing millets with other plant foodstuffs for enhanced nutritional quality of millet-based foods is also explored.

scholarly journals Biodiverse food plants in the semiarid region of Brazil have unknown potential: A systematic review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob ◽  
Maria Fernanda Araujo Medeiros ◽  
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Semiarid Region ◽  
Hymenaea Courbaril ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition

AbstractFood biodiversity presents one of the most significant opportunities to enhance food and nutrition security today. The lack of data on many plants, however, limits our understanding of their potential and the possibility of building a research agenda focused on them. Our objective with this systematic review was to identify biodiverse food plants occurring in the Caatinga biome, Brazil, strategic for the promotion of food and nutrition security. We selected studies from the following databases: Web of Science, Medline/PubMed (via the National Library of Medicine), Scopus and Embrapa Agricultural Research Databases (BDPA). Eligible were original articles, published since 2008, studying food plants occurring in the Caatinga. We assessed the methodological quality of the studies we selected. We reviewed a total of fifteen studies in which 65 plants that met our inclusion criteria were mentioned. Of this amount, 17 species, including varieties, subspecies, and different parts of plants, had data on chemical composition, in addition to being mentioned as food consumed by rural communities in observational ethnobotanical studies. From the energy and protein data associated with these plants, we produced a ranking of strategic species. The plants with values higher than the average of the set were: Dioclea grandiflora Mart. ex Benth (mucunã), Hymenaea courbaril L. (jatobá), Syagrus cearensis Noblick (coco-catolé), Libidibia ferrea (Mart. ex Tul.) L.P.Queiroz (jucá), Sideroxylon obtusifolium (Roem. & Schult.) T.D.Penn. (quixabeira). We suggest that the scientific community concentrates research efforts on tree legumes, due to their resilience and physiological, nutritional, and culinary qualities.

scholarly journals NUTRITIONAL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH STOMACH CANCER

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacó dos Santos Baima ◽  
Clisneia Alves Pereira ◽  
José Carlos de Sales Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Stomach Cancer ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nutritional Therapy ◽  
Low Weight ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nutritional Monitoring ◽  
Treatment Tolerance

This study aims to evaluate how food and nutrition can improve the quality of life of people with gastric cancer, since these patients are faced with various nutritional problems, among them, low weight, and malnutrition. The study is methodologically constituted as a qualitative approach and bibliographical research. The techniques used were discussion and interpretation from the reading of articles on the subject published in SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library), Pub Med., Service of the National Library of Medicine). exploring the data of the results that discuss the subject in question. The study found that nutritional care leads to an improvement and well-being in the quality of life of patients affected by stomach cancer. Thus, nutritional monitoring can provide a reduction in the adverse effects of treatment and the risk of malnutrition, improving treatment tolerance, quality of life and prognosis.

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