Addressing city food and nutritional security and

Belo Horizonte’s
City Government
Situational Assessment
Belo Horizonte - Profile
 Territorial Expanse: 330.9 Km2 – 97% urbanized;
 Population: 2.41 million inhabitants (IBGE, 2007). It is the 5th
largest municipal population in Brazil.
 Demographic Density: 7,270 inhabitants / Km2 (IBGE, 2007)
 GDP: R$ 19.4 billion (IBGE, 2006)
It ranks 4th among Brazilian capital cities.
 GDP per capita: R$ 8,095.00 (IBGE, 2006)
Venda Nova
Norte
Minas Gerais
Pampulha
Belo Horizonte
 HDI: 0,839 (PNUD, 2003)
It ranks 8th among Brazilian capitals.
 Poverty rate: 14.17% (IPEA, 2000) revenue less than ½ minimum
salary per capita (R$ 255.00 / U$ 150.00)
Noroeste
Oeste
Barreiro
Nordeste
Leste
Centro-Sul
Food & Nutrition Security - Concept
“The Food and Nutrition Security consists in realizing
the fundamental rights of all human being to regular
and permanent access to quality foods, in sufficient
quantity, without compromizing the access to other
essential needs, and it is based in food practices
which promote health and respecting cultural
diversity, and they are environmentally, cultural,
economically, socially sustainable.”
LOSAN, 2006
MUNICIPAL
SECRETARIAT FOR FOOD
AND NUTRITION
SECURITY
(SMASAN)
SMASAN’s WORKING GUIDELINES
1. Alimentary and nutritional assistance
2. Subsidized food marketing
3. Fostering urban agriculture
4. Supply and food market regulation
5. Mobilization and Education for Food Consumption
6. Employment and incoming generation with
professional qualification
1- FOOD AND NUTRITION
ASSISTANCE
Shares of Food and Nutrition Assistance are distributed on several
projects with different beneficiaries´s profiles:
School Meals: children and teenagers between 6 and 14 years old (1 to 3 per
day)
Food in day care centers : children aged 4 months till 6 years old (2-3 per day)
Feeding in Entities of Children Youth Socialization : children and
teenargers between 6 and 14 years (1 to 3 per day)
Feeding in shelters: people of all ages (1 to 3 per day)
Feeding in Institutions of Elderly Long Permanence: elderly (5 per day)
Assistance to Peolple in Homelessness Risk: people of all ages
Malnutrition and Prevention : children aged 0 to 5 years
Food Bank: people of all ages
SCHOOL FEEDING
Partnership: MEC/FNDE, SMED,
School Feeding Council
186 municipal schools
200 thousands meals /day
70 childhood education units
23 thousands meals/day.
Until 3 meals/day/child
.
Special diets: children with
feeding restrictions.
Raw products or slightly processed , as well
fruits and vegetables: allying with concern for
quality, there is a cost control to ensure the
project viability.
SCHOOL FEEDING
• Planning;
• Acquisition;
• Quality Control;
• Storage;
• Logistics;
• Alimentary Supervision (52 nutritionist on field);
• Planning and accompaniment of reform of scholarly kitchens;
• Permanent cooks capacitation;
• Alimentary and nutritional education;
ALIMENTARY AND
NUTRICIONAL ASSISTANCE:
guaranteed right to partner
institutions
191 day care
centers
87 socialization
projects
19 ILPIs (elderly)
Internship Programs:
strengthening linkages
with universities to
research and evaluate
actions.
FOOD BANK
Reducing food waste.
Receives donation of discarded
food, but still suitable for
consumption.
average of 1.260 kg
the food by day
Partnerships:
MDS, CONAB, CEASA/MG, UFV,
FUMEC, business, civil society
FOOD ASSISTANCE
80,000,000
(school meals and assistance)
Number of meals
72,746,743
70,000,000
60,000,000
51,026,862
50,000,000
54,820,895
40,000,000
34,961,320
30,000,000
20,000,000
21,719,881
19,859,575
Merenda Escolar
10,000,000
A. Alimentar
Merenda + A. Alimentar
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Projeção 2013
2 - FOOD MARKETING
subsidized
Popular Restaurant:
In 1994, PBH reopens the PR
in the area of ​Metropolitan Bus
Station.
Currently we have 4 restaurants
and a refectory + shelter
Quality: balanced diet, healthy and
safe.
Low cost: enables better balance
of family budget.
23% on are elderly.
14 thousand meals/day
(capacity 20 thousand/day)
Partnership: MDS.
POPULAR RESTAURANT 1994 – 2012 (meals numbers:
Opening RP 3
JUN/08
4,144,229
3,592,901
3,628,478
3,471,004
3,349,663
Prices after May/10:
Breakfast : R$ 0,50 (U$ 0.25);
Lunch: R$ 2,00 (U$ 1,00);
Dinner: R$ 1,00 (U$ 0,50)
Bolsa Famíia (discount 50%)
Homeless free access
2,753,369
2,642,780
2,521,250
Opening RP 2
JUL/04
1,428,413
1,424,311
1,236,583
991,356
763944
647676
731448
Closed RP 1
to reform
1,089,184
848,700
783084
208786
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
POPULAR RESTAURANT – who access?:
Average age
42,34 years Sex
23% elderly
71%
male
Job?
65,7%
have an
ocupation
Economic Class
Education
24,7% - A & B
52,5% - C
34,5% - basic
23,8% - D & E
48,1% - high school
17,5% - college
Data 2012
3 - SUPPLY AND FOOD
MARKET REGULATION
SUPPLYING
(ABasteCer)
Awarded: Millenium
Objectives (ONU)
2010
21 service points rented by a subsidized price to a private initiative exploration
20 products marketed to a single price (R$ 0.92 / kg – U$0.46) from a list of 80
products
50.000.000 kg sold/year
6,5 million of beneficiaries / year
LOOSE FAIRS
59 selling points
95 sellers
MODEL FAIR
2 selling points
29 sellers
ORGANIC FAIR
Certification of Organic
Production
Partnership: Emater/MG
9 fairs in town
99 tons sold/year (2012)
6 producers
3 municipalities
DIRECT FROM THE FARM
30 points of direct sale from
producer to consumer
Partnership: Emater/MG
608 tons sold/year (2012)
26 producers
8 participant municipalities
• 4- FOSTERING THE
URBAN AGRICULTURE
FOSTERING THE URBAN
AGRICULTURE
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY
GARDENS
Urban agriculture in school and
community (neighborhoods
associations, heath centers, etc).
126 school gardens (2012)
48 community gardens (2012)
PLANTING IN ALTERNATIVE
SPACES:
technical visits, workshops,
distribution of inputs and seedlings.
1.087 participants (2012)
91 workshops (2012)
ACQUISITION PROGRAM FROM
FAMILY AGRICULTURES
Social inclusion in the countryside by
strengthening family agriculture:
holders of Declaration of Abillity to Pronaf
-DAP, categories A/B e A/C, settlers and
camped.
26 municipalities
334 producers
400 tons of food
distributed: popular
restaurants, food
benches and school
feeding.
2011
PRO- ORCHARD
Pro-Orchard Project: It promotes
the practice of fruit cultivation in
common use and school spaces,
aiming the auto supply and the
enlargement and green urban
areas preservation.
Conditionalities: phyisical space, and
someone responsible for maintenance.
Procedures:
Technical
orientation/assistance about planting
and maintenance of fruit saplings and
organic compost.
Partnerships: EMATER-MG, MDS.
Orchards data:
orchards : 48 points;
Beneficiaries: 12,000 people;
Saplings distributed: 852;
2012
5- MOBILIZATION AND EDUCATION
FOR FOOD CONSUMPTION
Developing educational and
communication actions, in a
inter-sectoral way, in the
context of promoting
healthy eating habits and
lifestyles.
WORKSHOPS OF
ALIMENTARY EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL THEATER
Dynamic and participatory
methodology , appropriate to
different audiences.
Publications: pamphlets, flyers,
posters.
The action takes place especially in
public schools, partner network and
CRAS / BH citizenship.
CAPACITATION OF FOOD HANDLERS
GOOD PRACTICES IN FOOD
PRODUCTION
Public municipal network and
entities registered on the Food Bank
Permanent Capacitation :
400 professionals/year
6-EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME
GENERATION , WITH
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Professional Qualification
and income generation:
courses on alimentary field
on the Lagoinha Market.
80 diferents courses (2012)
Bakery School
Serving students from Municipal
Schools
400 people
(2012)
Pedagogical kitchen
Courses opent to the population.
1.292 people
(2012)
Secretariat´s Budget
70,000,000
Total
Budget R$
Total Amount
R$ 62.945.436,00
US$ 31,5 mi
60,000,000
50,000,000
40,000,000
School Meals
R$ 25.764.030,00
US$ 13 mil
30,000,000
Secretariat + Food Assistanc
R$ 21.621.338,00
US$ 11 mil
20,000,000
Popular Restaurant
R$ 15.560.068,00
US$ 7,75 mil
10,000,000
0
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Values 2013 by Product / Services - US$
Utilities (Public Services)
, USD 689,540, 2%
Others, USD 3,441,710,
11%
Propane - GÁS, USD
712,500, 2%
Third Part (Labor), USD
3,790,245, 12%
Labor (Man Power)
direct, USD 4,610,000,
15%
Food Stuffs, USD
18,228,723, 58%
Civil Society Participation (councils)
CAE- Conselho de Alimentação Escolar
School Food Council
CONCEPT
• The School Food Council of Belo Horizonte (CAE/BH), is a deliberative
organization, economic control and support to the execution of the National
Program for School Food in Belo Horizonte.
• The School Food Council of Belo Horizonte (CAE/BH), was created through
Municipal Decree nº 10.306, July 26, 2000.
STRUCTURE
• Composed of seven members, of which two are representatives of the
students' parents, two teachers and educational staff, two from Civil Society,
one from the executive branch, so as to comply with Resolução nº 38 do
FNDE.
ACTIVITIES
• The School Food Council of Belo Horizonte (CAE/BH), aside from overseeing
resources transferred, has the responsibility to control food quality products,
from purchase till distribution to municipal public schools.
COMUSAN- Conselho Municipal de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional
Municipal Council for Food and Nutritional Security
WHAT IS IT?
• COMUSAN-BH is a council created by the orientation of the Ministry for Social
Development (MDS) and Fight against Hunger, so as to accompany development of
the “Zero Hunger” program in Belo Horizonte. Its objective is to secure the
constitutional rights of each person for food with quality and in sufficient amount
throughout all phases of life.
WHEN WAS IT CREATED?
• O COMUSAN-BH was created through Municipal Decree n° 11.341, May 30, 2003.
OBJECTIVE:
• secure the constitutional rights of each human being to eat and for food and
nutritional security. It aims to work towards developing local policies, to be
implemented through partnerships and initiatives of the Municipality with civil
society, such as food banks, incentives for urban agriculture for personal
consumption, popular restaurants, and modernization of food supply equipment.
WHAT IS ITS COMPOSITION?
• O COMUSAN-BH is composed of 32 members, 11 governmental representatives; 11
representatives from civil society, and 10 labor representatives from the food
sector.
Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte
Secretaria Municipal Adjunta de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional
Rua Tupis, 149, 3º andar – Centro – Belo Horizonte/MG
www.pbh.gov.br/segurancaalimentar
Fone: (31) 3277- 4875
E-mail: smasan@pbh.gov.br