Quilombo food and child malnutrition in the Amazon of Paraense: an analysis based on mapping food and nutritional insecurity

• Autor(a) principal: Corrêa, Nadia Alinne Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Silva, Hilton Pereira da
• 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/8670218
• topic: Chronic malnutrition; Quilombola children; Traditional populations; Food and nutrition security; Bolsa família program; Programa Bolsa Família; Desnutrición crónica; Niños quilombolas; Poblaciones tradicionales; Seguridad alimentaria y nutricional; Desnutrição crônica; Criança quilombola; Populações tradicionais; Segurança alimentar e nutricional; Programa bolsa família

Quilombola communities historically face situations of vulnerability, racism and violence that have reflected in the social organization of these groups, to the point of defining the state of food and nutritional security. This article analyzed the levels of vulnerability in malnutrition of quilombola and non-quilombola children in the State of Pará, under the age of five, accompanied by the conditionalities of the Bolsa Família Program. This is an empirical, quantitative research, with data from the Mapping of Food and Nutrition Insecurity (Mapa InSan 2018). The results showed that malnutrition was high according to height-for-age (36.1%) and weight-for-age (8.4%), suggesting that a child who does not belong to any traditional community has an 85% odds ratio of live in better condition than a quilombola child in the State of Pará. The prevalence of food and nutritional insecurity is even higher in quilombola territories, reinforcing the vulnerability of this population.