The human right to adequate food and sustainable development goals: collective interferences with children in vulnerable peripheries

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https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-12902022200666pt

Keywords:

Food Security, Sustainable development, Community-based participatory research, Child, Poverty areas

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the relation between the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), from a dialogic experience with children and adolescents on the outskirts of São Vicente, São Paulo. Using the methodological framework of participatory research, observation and record of community assemblies and the partnership between the university and social movements point to a welcoming place for children/adolescents, which enable collective diagnostic readings on food. Dialogical processes enable us to problematize HRAF dimensions from the chain of production, food commercialization and consumption, and the instability to which children/adolescents are subjected in a complex network of determinants which produce hunger and malnutrition in the territories in which they live. Our results show that these dimensions dialogue with all the SDGs and with the cultural, economic, social, and environmental sustainability of food. The partnership and articulation between university and society strengthens and enhances the spaces of social control and training of actors to struggle toward HRAF. It can change inequalities in the territories and recognize children as a subject of rights with deep ethical rigor in the construction of inclusive listening and qualified practices.

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Author Biographies

  • Maria Fernanda Petroli Frutuoso, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Campus Baixada Santista. Departamento de Políticas Públicas e Saúde Coletiva. Santos, SP, Brasil.

  • Cássio Vinícius Afonso Viana, Instituto Camará Calunga

    Instituto Camará Calunga. São Vicente, SP, Brasil.

  • Rosilda Mendes, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Campus Baixada Santista. Departamento de Políticas Públicas e Saúde Coletiva. Santos, SP, Brasil.

  • Paulo Santos de Almeida, Universidade de São Paulo

    Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Arte, Ciências e Humanidades. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

  • Nina Wallerstein, University of New Mexico

    University of New Mexico. College of Population Health. Albuquerque, Estados Unidos da América.

  • Marco Akerman, Universidade de São Paulo

    Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

Published

2022-10-27

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Original research articles

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How to Cite

Frutuoso, M. F. P., Viana, C. V. A., Mendes, R., Almeida, P. S. de, Wallerstein, N., & Akerman, M. (2022). The human right to adequate food and sustainable development goals: collective interferences with children in vulnerable peripheries. Saúde E Sociedade, 31(3), e200666pt. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-12902022200666pt