Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional e alimentação indígena: uma leitura de políticas públicas à luz do desenvolvimento comunitário

Abstract

This thesis discusses public policies of Food and Nutritional Health (Brazilian Portuguese acronym: SAN) and their effectiveness applied when to an indigenous community in Southern Brazil. The research has an interdisciplinary character and is inserted in the field of community development studies, considering the knowledge of Nutrition in its contact with other areas such as Anthropology and its participation in the creation, promotion and monitoring of public policies on nutrition and food. The research presented here considered official documents prepared on food and nutrition health policies applied to an indigenous community in the interior of the state of Paraná, and made available under the Mesa Brasil program of the Social Service of Commerce. In Paraná, food and nutrition policy is in charge of Social Service of the Commerce (Brazilian acronym: SESC) and it presents some peculiarities, especially since it is known the cultural specificities of food of each community. In this sense, it was observed that the Guarani indigenous community in Guarapuava region (Brazilian State of Parana) develop a specific relationship with food under the program.