Educação Profissional e Tecnológica e a Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional para a Comunidade Indígena Xacriabá

Abstract

Alimentary and Nutritional Security is the human right to the regular and permanent access to healthy nourishment of sufficient quality and quantity so as not to insterfere with the access to other essential necessities. According to the National Council of Alimentary and Nutritional Security (2004), among the determinants of alimentary and nutritional insecurity in indigenous communities, the difficulty of access to education, especially on the university level, is identified as one of the conditions for increasing the participation of indigenous technicians in the administration of respective programs and public services. For the development of this study, the Januaria Campus of the Federal Institute of the north of Minas Gerais was selected because of its successful experience in relation to indigenous professional education, by means of de course of training of professionals in agriculture in the PROEJA modality offered to the Xacriaba. The objective of the present study is to analyze this proposal of PROEJA as a strategy of alimentary and nutritional security for this people. Therefore, a descriptive documental study of a quali-quantitative form, semi-structured, was carried out. Throughout this research there was perceived a positive relationship between curricular proposal and the promotion of Alimentary and Nutritional Security for the Xacriabá. It can be also observed that the majority of the native people were enrolled in this course with the purpose of: improving the life of the community, increasing technical knowledge, and helping in the elaboration of public policies for the indigenous people. In this manner the result obtained by this stud demonstrate the viable possibility of a strategy of public policy which the Indigenous PROEJA presents in contributing to the promotion of Alimentar and Nutritional Security for the indigenous communities, in the case of the present study, the Xacriabá. In addressing a structured public policy, there are presented possibilities of effective aid to the quality of life of this people.