The valorization of sociobiodiversity in school meals

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Tayrine Parreira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Luiz Carlos Dias da, Hirata, Aloísia Rodrigues, Raimundo, Rogério Robs Fanti, Galvão, Lívia Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/san/article/view/8659632
• topic: Educación alimentaria y nutricional; Biodiversidad; Aduanas Alimentarias; PANC; Food and Nutrition Education; Biodiversity; Food Customs; NCFPs; Educação Alimentar e Nutricional; Biodiversidade; Costumes Alimentares; PANCs

The objective of the work was to investigate the reality of the inclusion of socio-biodiversity meals in the school public schools in the state of Minas Gerais and its relations with environmental issues. The study was documentary research with a qualitative approach and the materials of investigation were systematizations developed by CECANE IFSULDEMINAS in the product of the Regional Workshops held in 2018. The workshops were held in different regions of the state, in the municipalities of Lavras, Boa Esperança, Bambuí, Uberlândia and Pompéu. A total of 73 different food items were found, of which 15 are considered to be native to Brazilian biomes and 6 non-conventional food plants (NCFPs). The result of the survey carried out in the workshops showed little meals diversity in the school menus, with 26 items being cited in all workshops. This dietary pattern is worrysome from an environmental point of view, since it’s restricted to few plant species. On the other hand, Brazil is a country of great biological wealth, with many species considered suitable for human consumption, where the symbiosis between man and nature occurs in the processes of socio-biodiversity, a potential to be valued, where schools appears as a strategic mechanism to encourage it.