Luana Lara Rocha, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Gabriel Borges Vaz de Melo, Nayhanne Gomes Cordeiro, Olivia Souza Honório, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, Larissa Loures Mendes
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Abstract
The inequities of Brazilian society are present in metropolitan favelas in the scope of the provision of basic sanitation, health, and education services. They are also reflected in the food environment and, consequently, in their access to food. Thus, this study aimed to characterize physical access to food establishments in the favelas of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. We analyzed the distribution of Public Equipment for Food Security and Nutrition and food establishments registered in the State of Minas Gerais, both for the year 2019, in the census sectors of Belo Horizonte. We calculated food deserts and conducted food swamp analyses for the favelas. We used a buffer network to calculate the nearest neighbor and commute distance. We also calculated accessibility through public transport. Establishments that predominantly offer healthy foods are fewer and farther away from favelas, whereas those that predominantly offer unhealthy foods are widely available in the environment. To reduce inequities in these communities, programs and policies that encourage opening healthy food establishments and planting community gardens in favelas are required.
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Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches.
Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet.
From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas:
Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition
Global food potential and global food production
Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs:
§ Climate, climate variability, and climate change
§ Desertification and flooding
§ Natural disasters
§ Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production
§ Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production
The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption.
Nutrition, food quality and food safety.
Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs:
§ Land, agricultural and food policy
§ International relations and trade
§ Access to food
§ Financial policy
§ Wars and ethnic unrest
Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.
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