(In)segurança alimentar no assentamento rural Horto Vergel, Mogi Mirim,SP / (In)food security in the rural settlement Horto Vergel, Mogi Mirim, SP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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This research was developed in the Rural Settlement Horto Vergel, located between the municipalities of Mogi Mirim and Itapira - State of São Paulo and was to study the 90 families who live in the settlement. The main objective was to identify the obstacles and opportunities that families of the settlement Horto Vergel face, in order to achieve food security, that being- the right of regular and permanent access to quality foods, in sufficient quantity, without compromising access to other essential needs, based on promoting health food practices that respect cultural diversity and such as environmental diversity, cultural, economic and social sustainability. To achieve this objective, the main tool that was used for data collection was the questionnaire "(In) Food Security for groups of farmers in Brazil", tested and validated for Brazil s reality and that contains the methodology of the German Scale Brazil s Food Insecurity (EBIA), socio-demographic indicators, family income, education, work and health, among others. The EBIA is a method that consists of formulating 15 questions to a person in the family with the purpose of capturing, through the responses, the different dimensions of (In) Food Security of your home, classifying them into four categories: food security ( SA), Food Insecurity Light (IL), Moderate Food Insecurity (IM), and insecurity Food Record (IG). Finally, it was concluded that the settlement Horto Vergel food insecurity prevails in 65,5% of households, and the main barriers that limit their achievement of food security are: poverty, the high number of members per family, health problems, poor, education and agricultural income below the national average. Their greatest potential are: diversified agricultural production, processing initiatives for the production, circulation of nonagricultural activities, among others.

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segurança alimentar family farming rural settlements assentamentos rurais agricultura familiar food security

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