Práticas alimentares saudáveis e sustentáveis entre agricultores/as familiares do Assentamento Dorcelina Folador, Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso

Abstract

Peasant family farming is responsible for most of the food that comes to the table of Brazilians, so it is essential to know the food practices of this population and the foods already available in their territories, regional foods. Considering this, this cross-sectional and observational study aimed to strengthen the consumption of regional foods and healthy and sustainable food possibilities among family farmers in the Dorcelina Folador Settlement, in Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso, through the construction of an educational booklet. Therefore, it was submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Mato Grosso and its project was approved. As a result, interviews were carried out with six farmers, who work with Agroforestry Systems, and it was found that most of them are from other states, have some Chronic Noncommunicable Disease and consume the various regional foods they grow, with more than one hundred food varieties. Subsequently, an educational booklet was systematized with some more relevant themes for the context, among them the presentation of new ways of consuming some regional foods and guidelines on good food handling practices. In view of this, it was concluded that farmers consume most of the food they produce, the epidemiological transition has also reached them, peasant family farming is extremely linked to the guarantee of Food and Nutrition Security and from the understanding of the reality of the farmers, the construction of educational tools, such as booklets, is strategic for sharing academic knowledge.