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Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the relationship between food insecurity and school meal consumption, adjusted for sociodemographic variables. Methods: This cross-sectional study investigated households with children and adolescents living in Brazilian municipalities. A semistructured...

Author(s)
Amorim, A. L. B. de; Santos, R. D. dos; Ribeiro Junior, J. R. S.; Canella, D. S.; Bandoni, D. H.
Publisher
Elsevier, New York, USA
Citation
Nutrition, 2022, 93,
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This article discusses the path of the PAA, based on the literature on the subject and the regulations and laws that apply to it, focusing on the analysis of the meaning of the actions implemented under the mantle of this program. The methodology used was based on a narrative review, which made it...

Author(s)
Machado, M.; Rocha, D. F.; Campos, M. M.; Costa, L. A.; Cunha, A. R. A. de A.
Publisher
Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento, Brasília, Brazil
Citation
Revista de Politica Agricola, 2020, 29, 1, pp 120-132
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India was the third country in the world to enact into law a constitutional commitment to the right to food, following Brazil and South Africa. The 2013 National Food Security Act (NFSA) was the latest in a long line of post-Independence food policies aimed at tackling hunger. This paper explores...

Author(s)
Lindgren, K. A.; Lang, T.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2022, 14, 5, pp 1159-1173
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where we stand on reducing hunger and malnutrition shows that progress in hunger...

Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Citation
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014: strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition, 2014, pp 52 pp.
Abstract

The National School Food Programme (PNAE) is an encompassing food security policy that achieved a significant advance in its the solidarity axis, in 2009, with Law n. 11.947, determining that at least 30% of the PNAE resources should be used to purchase family farming products. In this context, the ...

Author(s)
Almeida, E. de; Ferrante, V. L. S. B.; Almeida, L. M. de M. C.; Barone, L. A.
Publisher
Instituto de Economia Agrícola, São Paulo, Brazil
Citation
Informações Econômicas - Instituto de Economia Agrícola, 2016, 46, 2, pp 24-34
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This paper aims to describe and analyze how the Brazilian experience of fighting hunger and poverty has become a worldwide example, inspiring countries to implement similar programs. In particular, it seeks to explore the work of the Centre of Excellence against Hunger from the World Food Programme ...

Author(s)
Figueiredo, N.
Publisher
Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Alimentacao, Campinas, Brazil
Citation
Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, 2018, 25, 3, pp 1-16
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This thesis aims to understand how changes in Brazil's National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) occur, and to gain insights into the dynamics of translating PNAE policy values into the concrete in the context of a large school food programme. To meet these objectives, the research uses an embedded...

Author(s)
Lozano, C. E.
Publisher
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Understanding food systems' change: the making and the practicing of the school food reform in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2019, pp vii + 353 pp.
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Although food insecurity configures a public health issue in developing countries going through nutrition transition, there is still lack of evidence on how it is affected by social determinants and its relationship with ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption. Using qualitative methods, we...

Author(s)
Sato, P. de M.; Ulian, M. D.; Oliveira, M. S. da S.; Cardoso, M. A.; Wells, J.; Devakumar, D.; Lourenço, B. H.; Scagliusi, F. B.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Global Public Health, 2020, 15, 8, pp 1130-1143
Abstract

Food systems are at the center of global environmental, social, and economic challenges such as resource scarcity, ecosystem degradation, and climate change [1]. The current food systems are generating negative outcomes, such as land, water, and ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, excessive...

Author(s)
Raposo, A.; Ramos, F.; Raheem, D.; Saraiva, A.; Carrascosa, C.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, 18, 15,
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This study aims to analyze the association between social indicators and the worsening of food insecurity in 2013 and 2018 in different regions of Brazil. Data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (2013) and Brazilian Household Budgets Survey (2018) were analyzed, considering...

Author(s)
Souza Cherol, C. C. de; Ferreira, A. A.; Bem Lignani, J. de; Salles-Costa, R.
Publisher
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Citation
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2022, 38, 12,

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