Title: Segurança alimentar e nutricional no Brasil
Abstract:The discussion about food and nutritional security is old and its scientific development occurs from the scarcity of food resulting from wars, thus, hunger gives connotation to the theme.The study of ...The discussion about food and nutritional security is old and its scientific development occurs from the scarcity of food resulting from wars, thus, hunger gives connotation to the theme.The study of scientific information and productions about food and nutritional security research is interconnected with the principles and objects of study of science.The objective of this research is to understand the scientific field of food and nutritional security and to characterize the groups registered in the CNPq Research Group Directory that develop studies in Brazil.Thus, this study was developed in two stages.The first, of a theoretical nature, sought to reflect on the structuring (or not) of the scientific field of SAN based on the formulation and scientific field of Bourdieu.The second, descriptive, was based on analysis of secondary quantitative data, using descriptive statistics.It was possible to verify the structuring of a scientific field based on the existence of a scientific character, the presence of habitus, scientists who dispute the object, events and a magazine with discussion on the theme.However, this structuring points to a scientific field with unique characteristics, less autonomous, with a cleavage between science and politics, there are no specific norms that guide its production and it is similar to the post-normal science proposition.In the characteristics of the Research Groups in the current base of the CNPq Research Groups Directory, based on the 301 groups found, there was an increase in the number of groups from the 2000s onwards, the period is characterized by structuring public programs and policies in the area of education and with funding notices that contribute to the emergence of more research groups.These are concentrated in State and Federal Public Higher Education Institutions, come from 9 areas of knowledge, although in different proportions, greater representation in Health Sciences, Human Sciences and Applied Social Sciences.The leadership and members of the groups are composed of a majority of women, who are responsible for 68.6% of leaders and 66.1% of members.The survey identified geographic distribution in the five regions of Brazil, with the same number of groups (79 groups) in the Southeast (26%) and Northeast (26%).The South region contributed 24% of the total groups.The representativeness rate of the total groups (301) compared to the Research Groups Directory, groups was 8.0%.There is a growth in research groups at the same pace as the increase in the total number of research groups created in Brazil.Read More