Food security and child nutrition: reflexions from the 2nd National Congress on Tropical Medicine, Lisbon, 2013

Abstract

The Session “Food Security and Child Nutrition” held in the 2nd Congress of Tropical Medicine, in April 2013, aimed at aggregating contributions from various stakeholders to a joint reflection on the determinants, interventions and national and international policies to combat food insecurity, particularly concerning child malnutrition. The issues related to Food and Nutrition Security in the CPLP in its historical and political aspect, the nutritional situation in Angola as an example of a country full of challenges, the example of an international movement to combat malnutrition, “Scaling Up Nutrition” in Mozambique, as well as issues of international cooperation and food and nutrition security. The topics were presented by colleagues from Angola, Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal. The main message of this reflection is the multifaceted nature and complexity of issues related to food security, its multidisciplinary approach and how international cooperation, concerted public policies and states committed to the issues of the Human Right to Adequate Food can make all the difference.