Development of an educational primer on food and nutrition security for family farmers

Abstract

Food and nutrition security (SAN) is a topic that has a close connection with family farming. This report aims to describe the experience of developing a booklet on SAN for family farmers that included the selection of content, style and format of the material. The booklet, which is a descriptive guidance document on SAN in the context of family farming, was prepared by four scholarship holders linked to the project “Technical-scientific support for strengthening, consolidating and sustaining agrarian reorganization and commercialization of family agriculture and fishing production policies in Brazil” under the guidance of a professor at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), all which were participants in the referred project. The bibliographic survey was carried out through articles, legislation and reports. It was observed that there are few studies dealing with the relationship between SAN and aspects such as hygiene, conservation and transport with family farming as the public, and in this way the booklet was produced considering the approximation of SAN contents to family farmers.