Seminars
A collection of the various seminars that have been organized by the Betinho Project.
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Food insecurity, health and nutritional status of adult and senior populations in a capital city in Northeastern Brazil: Brazuca Natal Study.
March 27, 2024
Presenters:
Clelia de Oliveira Lyra, PhD
Severina Carla Vieira Cunha Lima, PhD
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Food Insecurity and low consumption of unprocessed foods
March 27, 2024
Presenter:
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Severina Carla Vieira Cunha Lima, PhD
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
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The Brazilian Food basket: a study of adult food consumption
March 27, 2024
Presenter:
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Clelia de Oliveira Lyra, PhD
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Food Policies and Programs in Brazil – A Review
June 13, 2023
Presenter:
Cecilia Rocha, PhD
Centre for Studies in Food Security and School of Nutrition
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Potentialities and challenges: Using an index as a public policy tool for moving food systems toward sustainability -
June 13, 2023
Presenter:
Giselle Garcia, PhD Candidate, Human Nutrition, University of Brasília - UnB, Brazil
Visiting Student, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Toronto Metropolitan University
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The Nitrogen Footprint for Brazil: a look at the agri-food chain’s nitrogen losses in Brazil - June 13, 2023
Presenter:
Camille Nolasco, PhD
Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Division (DIIAV)
National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Visiting Researcher, Centre for Studies in Food Security,
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Assessment of Food Systems Knowledge in Nutrition Higher Education - June 13, 2023
Presenter:
Priscilla Moura Rolim, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte -UFRN, Brazil.
Visiting Researcher, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Food policy in Istanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic
June 13, 2023
Presenter:
Sonay Bayramoglu, PhD
Ankara University, Turkiye
Visiting Scholar, City Institute, York University, Canada
Presenter:
Giselle Garcia, Ph.D. candidate,
Graduate Program in Human Nutrition, University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, and Visiting Student, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Toronto Metropolitan University
The transformation of the food systems toward sustainability is a challenge currently sought by many stakeholders. Despite the different sustainability concepts and meanings, a collective understanding is necessary to look forward as a society and find viable solutions. An index built considering stakeholders' views could be a tool for identifying critical entry points and prioritizing the most urgent initiatives. It could also measure progress and setbacks once it standardizes comparison metrics. Developing an index for a country, such as Brazil, with 5570 municipalities and different realities, is only possible if involving multi-actors and different validation stages.
In this seminar, Giselle Garcia presented the stages adopted and challenges faced to develop an index of sustainability for Brazil at the local level, covering the different inputs and activities of the food systems with possible and available indicators.
The dismantling of food and nutrition security policy in Brazil and initiatives for its reconstruction under the new Lula government - February 24, 2023
Presenter:
Dr. Luciene Burlandy, Professor, Nutrition and Social Policy, Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil
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On the first day of his mandate in 2019, Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro abolished the National Council for Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA). This was just one of the initiatives to dismantle a set of policies, which proposed to form the National System for Food and Nutrition Security (SISAN) in the country. In this online seminar, Dr. Luciene Burlandy covered the extent of this dismantling, initiated after 2015, and the perspectives for reconstruction under the newly installed third mandate of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.
Presenter:
Sávio Gomes, Doctoral candidate, Public Health, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil.
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It is estimated that the global prevalence of transgender and gender nonconforming people is 4.6 per 100,000 individuals. Stigma against transgender people is expressed in various ways, including social exclusion, physical and mental violence, and through the institutional creation of barriers to work, education, health, and social services. The transgender community presents body, food and nutritional relationships traversed by its unique gender experience, which challenges dietary and nutritional recommendations based on the traditional division by sex (male and female). The presentation reports on an ongoing study to identify trends, research gaps, and directions for future research on gender and food.
Presenter:
Viviany Chaves, Doctoral candidate, Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, and Visiting Student, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University.
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Considered a major strategy for reducing poverty and food insecurity, legislation on the inclusion of family farming in the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) in Brazil provides incentives for the formal organization of rural cooperatives and associations. In this presentation, we consider some of the key challenges in the implementation of this legislation.
Presenter:
Vanessa Ramos, Doctoral candidate, Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and Visiting Student, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University.
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, food delivery service increased considerably, leading to a great number of active food delivery workers, especially those linked to digital platforms. In this presentation, we discuss some partial results from a research project looking at the quality of life, health, and food security status of those workers in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.
Engaging with the State: The Brazilian women’s movement under the PT governments (2003-2016) - March 22, 2022
Presenter:
Simone Bohn, Associate Professor, Political Science, York University, Canada.
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In Brazil, under the PT (Worker’s Party) presidencies, an impressive list of accomplishments in terms of gender friendly policies and programs grew steadily. During this period (2003-2016), the women’s movement developed a process of intense collaboration with the federal government, especially its women’s policy agency, known as the SPM (or the Special Secretariat of Public Policies for Women), which resulted in the approval and the practical implementation of several claims and proposals of the movement’s agenda. What impact did this close partnership with state actors have on the women’s movement’s identity and autonomy?
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Using a mixed-methods approach, which combines qualitative interviews with the analysis of quantitative data, Simone Bohn analyzes the objective conditions around the ties between women’s movement actors – particularly when it comes to funding – and the federal government, as well as how those activists perceived themselves in that pattern of state-civil society relationship in Brazil. The analysis indicates that SPM’s federal grants program, its incorporation of most of the women’s movement’s claims into its platform of action, and its absorption of some of the movement’s cadres blurred the Brazilian women movement’s identity as a civil society actor and chipped away at its autonomy to define its own agenda and repertoire of protest.
Presenter:
Michelle Jacob, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition, Head of Nutrir Community Garden Laboratory, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
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Positive outcomes from community gardens contribute to the fulfillment of several agendas related to food and nutrition security, urban sustainability, and environmental education. Under this presupposition, several umbrella organizations in the public or nonprofit sectors have been supporting community garden projects. Bottom-up with political and/or administrative support is a governance model in community gardens in which the community plans, implements, and manages a garden with support from the government or non-governmental organizations. Several community gardens in Toronto, Canada, follow this governance structure, which is frequently associated with the success (growing and longevity) of these gardens' initiatives in the city.
This seminar discusses the results of a research project on the day-to-day needs in community gardening projects under a governance structure that counts with administrative support. Despite the diversity of the projects studied, land access, funding, help with human resources, and educational opportunities are typical needs in these gardens. A better understanding of these needs might contribute to the adequate support of community gardening projects.​
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Culture of Hunger in Brazil: From Glauber Rocha to Luis Inácio Lula da Silva - April 23, 2021
Presenter:
Hudson Moura, PhD, Lecturer, Politics and Public Administration, and Associate Member, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University
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In the 1960s, Brazil’s Cinema Novo (New Cinema) proposed the decolonization of cinema. The “culture of hunger” emerged as aesthetic rupture and social criticism within it. Hunger was the nourishing force for revolutionary action in the arts. In 2003, hunger would become one of the symbols of the Left and of President Lula’s administration. Was Lula inspired by Cinema Novo's prophetic ideas? What is the role of the “culture of hunger” in Brazilian culture? How does hunger become a major factor for the independence of Brazilian culture?
Revitalizing Cinema Novo’s manifesto and contemporary political discourse on “culture of hunger”, this communication aims—in a refashioning of the history of Brazil’s social-political aesthetics—to examine the complex hypertextual references and intersections between film and politics in Brazilian culture.
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Moderators:
- Cecilia Rocha, School of Nutrition and Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University
- Andrea Moraes, School of Nutrition and Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University
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The Brazilian National School Food Program (PNAE), created in 1955, is one of the largest social programs in the world, providing meals to over 42 million students in the country’s public schools.
The Betinho Project at Ryerson’s Centre for Studies in Food Security invites you to join Brazilian experts and members of Canada’s Coalition for Healthy School Food for a conversation on Brazil’s National School Food Program. How does it help the country reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The SDGs are social, environmental and economic goals to meet by 2030, including ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture.
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