Insegurança alimentar e fatores associados entre a comunidade quilombola vó rita – Trindade Goiás

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Food and nutrition are basic requirements for the promotion and protection of health. When this basic requirement is violated, it can be conceptualized as Food Insecurity (FI), which is defined as the lack of social, economic, and physical access to food in adequate quantity and quality to meet the nutritional needs of each individual, respecting individual, cultural, economic, social, and biological needs. Mapping the conditions of FI among historically vulnerable groups, including Traditional Peoples and Communities, is important. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to map the levels of FI within a quilombola community located in the municipality of Trindade (GO) and correlate them with socioeconomic and demographic aspects. METHODOLOGY: The Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale (EBIA) will be applied, along with a questionnaire to collect socioeconomic and demographic variables—age, income, race or color, sex, and educational level. The questionnaires will be administered in person. The research participants will be families from the Quilombo Vó Rita. RESULTS: More than 60% of participants experienced some level of food insecurity, namely mild food insecurity: 10.71%, moderate food insecurity: 21.43% and severe food insecurity: 7.14%. CONCLUSION: The majority of residents of the Vó Rita quilombola community live in a situation of food insecurity, which is more prevalent in households headed by black women and with low levels of education.