Projeto café do trabalhador como promotor de segurança alimentar e nutricional: avaliação da eficácia da unidade Natal-RN

The evaluation of public policies that promote Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) it s a multidisciplinary activity extremely relevant to the effectiveness of actions to legitimize the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF). This study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the unit project Natal-RN Café do Trabalhador in promoting SAN to its users. The theoretical framework is based on the public and political and on the dimensions of the concept of FSN (quantity and quality-regularity). Through a qualitative approach, methodologically this was the work of an evaluation of efficiency of the unit Natal-RN of Café do Trabalhador project in light of the assumptions of the concept of SAN. Data collection was conducted through retrospective archival research in official documents of the project, semi-structured interviews with managers involved in its implementation (representative of the Secretary of State for Employment, Housing and Care of RN SETHAS and third party), socioeconomic questionnaire applied to the users of the unit, check the amount, regularity and quality of meals offered for 15 days (menu routine) using the descriptive form menu and form filling type checklist for verification of compliance with good practices . Methods of analysis, we used content analysis, descriptive statistics and compared to previously established parameters for the project. As categories of analysis were defined organizational arrangement, access, user, food quantity-regularity and food quality. The results show that, it was found in the category arrangement that will implement the project dismissed technical criteria for choosing the districts and the quantitative distribution of meals for each location. It was found that the valuation of the shares of the company outsources technical SETHA has not been performed. We observed in the access category, the unit has a strategic location, but lack of space in the refectory. The main obstacle to economic access for users is the lack of a register for the beneficiaries. In the category of users, it was identified that the clientele of the project it is predominantly men, with more than 51 years, low education, earning wages less 1 obtained through informal employment, which they move up through the unit transport collective, go to all days of operation due primarily to price. About the meals category quantity-regularity of food showed that the menu serves 95% of the desired needs, and that holidays and weekends are periods of disrupting the regularity of supply of meals. Regarding the category of food quality, it was found that the nutritional aspect on the menu are food sources rich in sodium, nitrates and low in fiber. In the aspect of hygiene and sanitation are the main limitations related to waste management, lack of exposure controls of food prepared and inadequacies of the physical structure. The results showed that in general and the institutional arrangement of the organs attached to the project should establish a systematic evaluation project is to establish as a promoter of and FSN overcome these obstacles

Notas de la CEPAL Nº 31

Número Especial Panorama Social de América Latina 2002-2003: Se Estanca Superación de la Pobreza Columna de Opinión de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva Adjunta de la CEPAL Disminuye el Hambre en América Latina y el Caribe Fome Zero: Activa Lucha Contra el Hambre en Brasil La Invisibilidad de la Pobreza Femenina El Gasto Social Aumenta y se Focaliza Mejor Normas Laborales No se Cumplen en América Latina Apéndice Estadístico Publicaciones Recientes Calendario

ECLAC Notes No 31

Special Issue Social Panorama of Latin America 2002-2003   Op Ed by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Deputy Executive Secretary: Struggling Against Hunger and Poverty  Hunger Declines in Latin America and the Caribbean   Fome Zero: Anti-Hunger Drive in Brazil   The Invisibility of Women's Poverty  Social Spending Rises and Becomes Better Focused In Latin America Labor Regulations Are Not Followed   Statistical Appendix  Recent Titles  Calendar

Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos: limites e potencialidades de políticas de segurança alimentar para a agricultura familiar

The Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos was created by the Lula administration (2003) as part of Fome Zero (Zero Hungry). This program aims to ensure access to food for people living in food and/or nutritional insecure situation and strengthen family agriculture, by food that is pushased by the government. Considering the importance of this program as a differentiated policy that we abode in the analysis far of its implementation on national scale, as its operationalization in a specific context, with the spatial cutout of the municipality Dracena, located on São Paulo state western portion. It was found that, either in national and municipal levels, the program presented a growth on the number of approved projects, participating producers, benefited institutions and resource values. However, even with such expansion, the scope of this program is still quite limited and at the same time, too concentrated in spatial terms.

O programa de aquisição de alimentos (PAA) e o programa nacional de alimentação escolar (PNAE) no município de Dracena-SP

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Evaluación de efectos del proyecto Cisternas Escolares en las condiciones de vida de las comunidades escolares rurales del semiárido brasileño

En el año 2003 Brasil incorporó a su Estrategia Nacional ¨Fome Zero¨ el Programa Cisternas, iniciativa que comenzó a nivel local y cuyo objetivo es garantizar el acceso a agua para el consumo humano por medio de la construcción de un millón de cisternas rurales en todo el semiárido brasileño. Las cisternas de captación de agua de lluvia son una tecnología social de bajo coste y alto valor técnico, cultural y ambiental, destinada a garantizar agua de calidad a la población rural de baja renta y a mitigar los efectos que sobre ella tienen las sequias recurrentes y prolongadas que afectan al semiárido. Como parte del Programa Cisternas, la ONG brasileña “Instituto Ambiental Brasil Sustentável” (IABS) está apoyando el proyecto Cisternas Escolares, cuyo objetivo es construir cisternas de 52.000 litros de captación de agua de lluvia en 110 escuelas rurales del semiárido alagoano, y capacitar a las comunidades escolares para su correcta gestión. Este Trabajo Fin de Máster consiste en la evaluación de los efectos que dicho proyecto está teniendo sobre las condiciones de vida de las comunidades escolares rurales beneficiarias, aspirando a aportar información sobre los potenciales beneficios sociales de este tipo de actuaciones y a incrementar dichos beneficios proporcionando recomendaciones prácticas. De esta forma se pretende dar respuesta a la necesidad de conocimiento y mejora de los efectos que los proyectos de cisternas de captación de agua de lluvia tienen sobre sus beneficiarios, pero también a la demanda que está surgiendo desde la agenda del desarrollo, de evaluaciones de impacto más prácticas que sirvan para mejorar los proyectos que evalúan. La metodología propuesta en este trabajo adopta un enfoque mixto orientado a combinar el rigor de los datos cuantitativos, con el análisis de la cadena de efectos del proyecto y las percepciones de los beneficiarios. Dicha metodología consta de cuatro partes diferenciadas: i) la elaboración de la línea de base del proyecto; ii) un análisis causa – efecto cualitativo del proyecto, incluyendo las percepciones de los beneficiarios; iii) una evaluación de impacto que no pudo llevarse a cabo debido a retrasos en la ejecución del proyecto que desplomaron el potencial estadístico; y iv) un estudio de caso múltiple, realizado como alternativa a la evaluación de impacto, orientado a identificar diferencias entre las escuelas que reciben una cisternas y las que no. Los resultados de esta evaluación de efectos muestran que el proyecto Cisternas Escolares tiene potencial para producir mejoras en la salud, el funcionamiento, la autonomía, los usos del agua, la preocupación de las comunidades escolares y los conflictos con los vecinos de las escuelas beneficiarias. Dicho potencial es variable en cada una de las escuelas y depende de múltiples factores, los cuales son identificados y analizados en este trabajo. Fruto de este trabajo son también una serie de recomendaciones orientadas a que el proyecto Cisternas Escolares consiga alcanzar su máximo potencial en todas las escuelas beneficiarias. Estas recomendaciones pretenden mejorar las capacitaciones del proyecto y los consejos gestores del agua de las escuelas, así como incluir nuevas actividades relevantes en el proyecto, como la creación de espacios de participación para los actores y la involucración de las alcaldías y las secretarías de educación.

Projeto café do trabalhador como promotor de segurança alimentar e nutricional: avaliação da eficácia da unidade Natal-RN

The evaluation of public policies that promote Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) it s a multidisciplinary activity extremely relevant to the effectiveness of actions to legitimize the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF). This study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the unit project Natal-RN Café do Trabalhador in promoting SAN to its users. The theoretical framework is based on the public and political and on the dimensions of the concept of FSN (quantity and quality-regularity). Through a qualitative approach, methodologically this was the work of an evaluation of efficiency of the unit Natal-RN of Café do Trabalhador project in light of the assumptions of the concept of SAN. Data collection was conducted through retrospective archival research in official documents of the project, semi-structured interviews with managers involved in its implementation (representative of the Secretary of State for Employment, Housing and Care of RN SETHAS and third party), socioeconomic questionnaire applied to the users of the unit, check the amount, regularity and quality of meals offered for 15 days (menu routine) using the descriptive form menu and form filling type checklist for verification of compliance with good practices . Methods of analysis, we used content analysis, descriptive statistics and compared to previously established parameters for the project. As categories of analysis were defined organizational arrangement, access, user, food quantity-regularity and food quality. The results show that, it was found in the category arrangement that will implement the project dismissed technical criteria for choosing the districts and the quantitative distribution of meals for each location. It was found that the valuation of the shares of the company outsources technical SETHA has not been performed. We observed in the access category, the unit has a strategic location, but lack of space in the refectory. The main obstacle to economic access for users is the lack of a register for the beneficiaries. In the category of users, it was identified that the clientele of the project it is predominantly men, with more than 51 years, low education, earning wages less 1 obtained through informal employment, which they move up through the unit transport collective, go to all days of operation due primarily to price. About the meals category quantity-regularity of food showed that the menu serves 95% of the desired needs, and that holidays and weekends are periods of disrupting the regularity of supply of meals. Regarding the category of food quality, it was found that the nutritional aspect on the menu are food sources rich in sodium, nitrates and low in fiber. In the aspect of hygiene and sanitation are the main limitations related to waste management, lack of exposure controls of food prepared and inadequacies of the physical structure. The results showed that in general and the institutional arrangement of the organs attached to the project should establish a systematic evaluation project is to establish as a promoter of and FSN overcome these obstacles

Projeto café do trabalhador como promotor de segurança alimentar e nutricional: avaliação da eficácia da unidade Natal-RN

The evaluation of public policies that promote Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) it s a multidisciplinary activity extremely relevant to the effectiveness of actions to legitimize the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF). This study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the unit project Natal-RN Café do Trabalhador in promoting SAN to its users. The theoretical framework is based on the public and political and on the dimensions of the concept of FSN (quantity and quality-regularity). Through a qualitative approach, methodologically this was the work of an evaluation of efficiency of the unit Natal-RN of Café do Trabalhador project in light of the assumptions of the concept of SAN. Data collection was conducted through retrospective archival research in official documents of the project, semi-structured interviews with managers involved in its implementation (representative of the Secretary of State for Employment, Housing and Care of RN SETHAS and third party), socioeconomic questionnaire applied to the users of the unit, check the amount, regularity and quality of meals offered for 15 days (menu routine) using the descriptive form menu and form filling type checklist for verification of compliance with good practices . Methods of analysis, we used content analysis, descriptive statistics and compared to previously established parameters for the project. As categories of analysis were defined organizational arrangement, access, user, food quantity-regularity and food quality. The results show that, it was found in the category arrangement that will implement the project dismissed technical criteria for choosing the districts and the quantitative distribution of meals for each location. It was found that the valuation of the shares of the company outsources technical SETHA has not been performed. We observed in the access category, the unit has a strategic location, but lack of space in the refectory. The main obstacle to economic access for users is the lack of a register for the beneficiaries. In the category of users, it was identified that the clientele of the project it is predominantly men, with more than 51 years, low education, earning wages less 1 obtained through informal employment, which they move up through the unit transport collective, go to all days of operation due primarily to price. About the meals category quantity-regularity of food showed that the menu serves 95% of the desired needs, and that holidays and weekends are periods of disrupting the regularity of supply of meals. Regarding the category of food quality, it was found that the nutritional aspect on the menu are food sources rich in sodium, nitrates and low in fiber. In the aspect of hygiene and sanitation are the main limitations related to waste management, lack of exposure controls of food prepared and inadequacies of the physical structure. The results showed that in general and the institutional arrangement of the organs attached to the project should establish a systematic evaluation project is to establish as a promoter of and FSN overcome these obstacles

Interesterificação química: alternativa para obtenção de gorduras zero trans

The function of lipids in human nutrition has been intensively debated in the last decade.This context reinforces the concern about controlling the trans fat ingestion, due to its negative implications on health. Interesterification provides an important alternative to modify the consistency of oils and fats without causing formation of trans isomers. This article reports research done towards production of zero trans fats by chemical interesterification, for different industrial purposes. Aspects related to the effect of trans fats on diet, their impact on health and modifications in Brazilian legislation are also covered.

Evidence for zero-differential resistance states in electronic bilayers

We observe zero-differential resistance states at low temperatures and moderate direct currents in a bilayer electron system formed by a wide quantum well. Several regions of vanishing resistance evolve from the inverted peaks of magneto-intersubband oscillations as the current increases. The experiment, supported by a theoretical analysis, suggests that the origin of this phenomenon is based on instability of homogeneous current flow under conditions of negative differential resistivity, which leads to formation of current domains in our sample, similar to the case of single-layer systems.

Microwave Zero-Resistance States in a Bilayer Electron System

Magnetotransport measurements on a high-mobility electron bilayer system formed in a wide GaAs quantum well reveal vanishing dissipative resistance under continuous microwave irradiation. Profound zero-resistance states (ZRS) appear even in the presence of additional intersubband scattering of electrons. We study the dependence of photoresistance on frequency, microwave power, and temperature. Experimental results are compared with a theory demonstrating that the conditions for absolute negative resistivity correlate with the appearance of ZRS.

Splitting of the zero-energy edge states in bilayer graphene

Bilayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag termination are studied within the tight-binding model. We also include single-site electron-electron interactions via the Hubbard model within the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approach. We show that either the interactions between the outermost edge atoms or the presence of a magnetic order can cause a splitting of the zero-energy edge states. Two kinds of edge alignments are considered. For one kind of edge alignment (?) the system is nonmagnetic unless the Hubbard parameter U becomes greater than a critical value Uc. For the other kind of edge alignment (?) the system is magnetic for any U>0. Our results agree very well with ab initio density functional theory calculations.

Zero-phonon emission and magnetic polaron parameters in EuTe

A phonon structure in the photoluminescence of EuTe was discovered, with a well-defined zero-phonon emission line (ZPL). The ZPL redshifts linearly with the intensity of applied magnetic field, indicating spin relaxation of the photoexcited electron, and saturates at a lower magnetic field than the optical absorption bandgap, which is attributed to formation of magnetic polarons. From the difference in these saturation fields, the zero-field polaron binding energy and radius are estimated to be 43 meV and 3.2 (in units of the EuTe lattice parameter), respectively. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3634030]

Spin-charge coupling in quantum wires at zero magnetic field

We discuss an approximation for the dynamic charge response of nonlinear spin-1/2 Luttinger liquids in the limit of small momentum. Besides accounting for the broadening of the charge peak due to two-holon excitations, the nonlinearity of the dispersion gives rise to a two-spinon peak, which at zero temperature has an asymmetric line shape. At finite temperature the spin peak is broadened by diffusion. As an application, we discuss the density and temperature dependence of the Coulomb drag resistivity due to long-wavelength scattering between quantum wires.