Evaluación de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en familias de la vereda Chocoa-Girón-Santander.

Abstract

The main purpose of this work was the evaluation of food and nutritional security in the Chocoa village, located in the municipality of Girón, Santander. Currently in this municipality, different social projects have been promoted; Such as the one established by the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development, which consists of technical assistance processes aimed at farmers and entrepreneurs in the rural sector with programs aimed at strengthening competitiveness, promotion and marketing of agricultural products that encourage entrepreneurship and productive strengthening in the rural sector community, the rural community tourism program that seeks to encourage the community through different economic alternatives to generate development in the region, improving their quality of life, with priority for the rural population that is identified in a state of poverty and malnutrition. Due to the existing differences in nutritional status, housing conditions and access to drinking water of the people in this sectoral group, it could be observed that these families are in a state of vulnerability, therefore, the concern arises about the factors that promote their condition, how these conditions affect their current health status and how a way to mitigate their current condition could be proposed. The scope of this study starts from the evaluation of the nutritional status of the families to the characterization of the perception of food security of the study group. To carry out this statistical analysis research of descriptive cross-sectional type with a convenience sampling in which 15 families were visited and surveyed about their perception of food security, taking into account the axes of availability, access and analysis of the nutritional status of families, using measurement instruments such as the ELCSA survey, the access survey and anthropometric measurements. The results obtained show that there is a population framework affected by food availability and access, where it is identified that 60% of the families of the population sample present moderate food insecurity; in addition, in the dimensions of measurement such as concern, quality, quantity and hunger, high indicators were found in concern and quantity, which also contributes to increase the perception of food insecurity.