Insegurança alimentar e nutricional e produção para o autoconsumo na zona rural de São Miguel do Anta, Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Dutra, Luiza Veloso
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/2009
• topic: Insegurança alimentar e nutricional; Família; Produção de alimentos; Food and nutrition insecurity; Family; Food Production; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO

The food and nutrition security is an issue of broad approach and its evaluation requires different methods. The food insecurity situation in rural areas is 35.1% in Brazil. The self-sustainable production meets the principles of food and nutrition security and diversity of food and maintenance of eating habits. The aim of this study was to investigate the situation (in) food and nutrition security by different methods, as well as participation in self-sustainable production and food availability in households in rural São Miguel do Anta, Minas Gerais. Sectional study was performed with 79 families living in rural São Miguel do Anta, MG, totaling 272 residents. We analyzed sociodemographic factors, housing conditions, and the availability of food at home for 30 days and self-sustainable production. The methods used were nutritional status, dietary energy deficiency in the household (FAO) and the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale (EBIA). The situation of food insecurity in this population was different according to each method, 12.7% of food energy deficiency by the household, 24.0% by the presence of low weight in the home and 49.5% by EBIA. In all households, 22.7% of available calories came from household production and the remaining purchases, higher monthly expenditure on purchase of carbohydrates (91.1%), mainly sugar (12.2%). Since the difference in values of insecurity found among the methods, there is no indicator alone can cover the multiple dimensions of (in) food and nutrition security and measure household food insecurity is a challenge due to the complexity and appearance addressed. Evaluate only the availability of food energy is not sufficient to diagnose the nutritional status of food security, since the quality and origin of documents are highly relevant in condition (in) food and nutrition security.