Grupos vulnerables y su caracterización como criterio de discriminación de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Brasil

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Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005-09

RESUMO

The more exposed people to Food and Nutritional Insecurity comprise the list of the "dispossessed". The most affected families are the ones more vulnerable to environment degradation, living in bad sanitary conditions, contamination and high demographic rates; when this is associated to the maternal and children group vulnerability becomes more accentuated. The quantification of malnourished and undernourished people is as important as determining who they are, where they are, their food habits and the causes and solutions for the problem. Our definition of possible vulnerable groups in Brazil follows two perspectives: poverty related data and FAO's vulnerable group classification (perspectives containing personal criteria, for there are no approaches of the type in scientific literature). High income concentration in Brazil results that the poor have insufficient resources to buy food implying in more vulnerability. There are differences between: urban and rural areas, metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, and between the Northeast and Northern regions as related to other regions. There are important ethnic, cultural and migration factors involving the more vulnerable groups.

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