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0539/2018 - Participatory food and nutrition security assessment in an urban community of Salvador, Brazil.
Avaliação participativa da segurança alimentar e nutricional em uma comunidade de Salvador, Brasil.

Author:

• Marie Agnes Aliaga - Aliaga, M.A - <marie.agnes.aliaga@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5518-6912

Co-author(s):

• Mirella Santos Ribeiro - Ribeiro, M.S - <smcs.2008@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8789-8367
• Sandra Maria Chaves dos Santos - Santos, S.M.C - <sandra.mchaves@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4706-0284
• Leny Alves Bomfim Trad - Trad, L.A.B - <lenytrad@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8762-4320


Abstract:

This article focuses on a food and nutrition security (FNS) participatory assessment that was developed together with community leaders and residents in Salvador city, Bahia, Brazil. The study aims to look into the research design process, its results and how these were used, discussing how it relates to FNS concept and existing assessment methods. Secondary data were found to be difficult to access and of little utility to local activists. As for the household survey, which was designed and of which results were used by the participants, it produced strong data on the food and nutrition insecurity scenario that could be discussed together with national and socioeconomic indicators. Above all, it is the relevance of participatory approaches that stood out: along with the results showing how much FNS is intricately ed into a bigger social vulnerability context, the study shows how critical it is to consider FNS research as a political instrument and the knowledge it produces as a way to transform power relationships. Within this perspective, FNS assessment qualifies as an emancipatory process, indissociablesocial change actors and actions.

Keywords:

food and nutrition security. social vulnerability. community-based participatory research.

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Aliaga, M.A, Ribeiro, M.S, Santos, S.M.C, Trad, L.A.B. Participatory food and nutrition security assessment in an urban community of Salvador, Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Dec). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/participatory-food-and-nutrition-security-assessment-in-an-urban-community-of-salvador-brazil/17072?id=17072



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