Food and nutritional security in an agrarian reform settlement in Sergipe in the final half of the dry season

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Gildson Alex Amaro dos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Silva, Danielle Góes da, Santos, Adriana Correia dos, Voci, Sílvia Maria
• 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/8661351
• topic: Seguridad alimentaria y nutricional; Consumo de comida; Asentamientos rurales; Segurança alimentar e nutricional; Assentamentos rurais; Consumo de Alimentos; Food and Nutritional Security; Rural Settlements; Food Consumption

Rural settlements are spaces for land redistribution that promote family farming, enhancing access to food. However, recent studies point to higher levels of food insecurity in the countryside. Therefore, our objective was to diagnose the food and nutritional security situation of agrarian reform settlers in Sergipe, Brazil. We used the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale and collected socioeconomic, environmental, productive and anthropometric data from 110 people who were reference in their homes, in the final half of the dry season. We observed a prevalence of 36.4% of overweight and food insecurity in 67.3% of the households. As for food production, we observed 84.8% of crops using chemical inputs and 77.3% of backyards with organic production. We conclude that agrarian reform settlers in the final half of the dry season have food and nutritional insecurity due to the coexistence of nutritional deviations, lack of regular access to healthy and safe food, in addition to precarious socio-environmental conditions.