Brazilian Northern and Southeastern Food Biodiversity

1. Brazilian Northern and Southeastern Food Biodiversity Rosangela A Pereira Luana S Monteiro Thais M Vasconcelos Camila P Coura Janaina P Silva Daniele R Cunha Departamento de Nutrição Social e Aplicada Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro CNPq - Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development # 559613/2010-5 and # 200686/2011-9 – PDEE

2. Major social and economic changes in Brazil • Modification in the dietary patterns • Reduction in the consumption of traditional foods • Increase in the consumption of processed foods Brazilians combine the traditional diet, based on rice and beans, with processed foods low in nutrients and high in sugar, fat and sodium, like cookies and sodas IBGE, 2011

3. Changes in the dietary patterns • Impairment of food diversity • Reduction of food options • Disruption of local food market and production systems Uniformity of food habits

4. Brazilian Dietary Guidelines healthy diet regional foods Brazilian food diversity • obtaining low cost healthy local food • contributing to environmental sustainability • empowering family farming

5. Objective To compare the food diversity in the Northern and Southeastern Brazilian regions (less densely vs. most densely populated)

6. Methods Brazil: 55.970 domicílios Southeast:14.078 domicílios North:7.611 domicílios North BrazilianHousehold Budget Survey 2008-2009 Two-stage cluster sampling design Incomeandlocationstrata Data collection: 12 months Sample units equally allocated among the four quarters of the survey to reproduce seasonal variations Northeast Central West Southeast South

7. Northern region Amazon ecosystem 42% of the country area 8% of the country population 16 millions inhabitants = 74% in urban areas Population density: 4 inhabitants/km2

8. Southeastern region Devastated subtropical forest: Mata Atlantica 11% of the country area 44% of the country population 80 millions inhabitants = 93% in urban areas Population density: 84 inhabitants/km²

9. Data collection • Food and beverage acquisition for consumption • Monetary and • Non monetary (donation, production, etc) • Informed by the person that was responsible by the household expenses • Recorded in a notebook • Data entry in the households • specific software • personal interview

10. Data treatment • Only fresh foods • Cereals • Leafy Vegetables • Fruity Vegetables • Roots and tubers • Fruits • Coconuts and seeds • Red meats • Poultry • Freshwater fish • Marine fish • Local names • Scientificnames • Taxonomy (Pubmed) andother sources

11. Householdavailability: numberofspecies in theBrazilianNorthernandSoutheastern, 2008-2009

12. Future developments of the research • Identify the origins of the foods • To estimate the prevalence of acquisition • To relate with individual food consumption data

13. The major problem to describe food diversity in Brazil is the broad variation of common names for single foods

14. Information on dietary habits is important to guide food and nutrition policies elaboration in Brazil

15. Thankyou! Thisproject is fundedbytheBrazilianNational Council for Scientific and Technological Development (# 559613/2010-5) roapereira@ufrj.br Rimaro – Cuiabá, Brasil