Focused Discussion & Poster Session
The National School Food Program Revisited View Digital Media
Focused Discussion Marcelo Brandão Ceccarelli
The aim of this work is to unveil the importance of the Brazilian National School Food Program towards solving the problems of hunger, malnutrition, food sovereignty, food (and regional) culture, as well as to assert to the new challenges imposed by covid-19 and the recent attempts to change this policy regulation. The objective is to show how the changes provided by the law 11.947/2009 are both in accordance with the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 and to the UN Sustainable Development Goals numbers 1,2,3. One should highlight the importance of democratic participation on food policy for schools and the obligation for the state (municipal, regional or federal level) to purchase food from family agriculture. One’s interdisciplinary field is education, law, citizenship, public policies. In order to analyze this major public policy it was used legislative interpretation as well as official data on resources destined to the program. Another method was the revision of the literature regarding this policy in order to perceive its effectiveness. The results shows democratic governance decreasing during the last few years and for the past two years, while the crises of covid-19 last, the federal government gave a slow response to the crises, what generated uncertainty both for the states and municipalities and put at risk the continuity of this program, the food security of many school age population, as well as the producers. Therefore, this program should be seen as a world example of success and must be preserved in national grounds.
Physiological Response of Tree Seedlings to Drought and Multiple Mitigating Treatments
Poster Session Emmanuel Opoku
Plant production and growth are becoming increasingly affected by the changing environmental conditions. Limited access to the adequate conditions required for growth affects the physiological functioning of the plants. This study, therefore, focuses on the physiological response of the seedlings of plants to drought under multiple mitigating treatments. Appropriate plant production practices are vital in mitigating drought and its effects and their plant’s growth and response mechanisms are expected to differ. There were appropriate control treatments that would allow for studies on the seedling’s growth behavior. Different water treatment regimes were employed subjecting some samples to drought treatment. The photosynthetic performance was measured by the LI-6800 photosynthesis system. The open gas exchange system determines photosynthetic parameters (i.e. photosynthesis rate, stomatal conductance, transpiration rate, and spectral reflectance of foliage obtained by spectroradiometer at the end of the drought period). The research illustrates the differences in the mitigation treatments on the seedlings’ response to drought.
Bangladeshi Community Food Environment, Diet, and Diabetes in the New York City View Digital Media
Poster Session Tamara Alam, Jasmine Kaur, Margrethe Horlyck Romanovsky
The Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS-P) is a validated tool that illustrates individuals’ perceptions of their nutrition environments. We developed a culturally tailored NEMS-P that characterizes the nutrition environment of the Bangladeshi ethnic enclaves in New York City. The tool captures (a) home food environment & dietary acculturation, (b) perception regarding diabetes, (c) consumer nutrition environment, (d) thoughts and habits about food, (e) food security, (f) household information, and (g) demographics. This tool includes culturally specific Bangladeshi foods and assesses the availability and intake of foods in adult Bangladeshi immigrants ages 18 years and older. Furthermore, we will be able to examine the role that cultural foods and behaviors play in diabetes. Printed guide images of common ethnic foods have also been developed to aid in translation and overcome linguistic barriers to communication. Sample recruitment has been done by distributing fliers on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, distribution throughout the Brooklyn College campus, and snowball sampling. We have interviewed 20 Bangladeshi Immigrants ( female= 65%,male=35%; Age =(Mean土SD) 37土16 years; diabetes prevalence= 25%). This research reflects the shifting cultural and ethnic landscape and the accessibility of cultural foods which were once considered exotic in NYC. Furthermore, it shifts the focus from the Western diet and practices, to evaluating and incorporating cultural foods and practices in all aspects of nutrition and dietetics, from community settings to food policy.
