Institute of Social Sciences - University of Lisbon

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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Publications

Jovens NEEF: mudanças e continuidades no pós-crise. Policy Brief 2017

Publication . Vieira, Maria Manuel; Ferreira, Tatiana; Pappámikail, Lia

2017Report

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Material deprivation and food insecurity: perceived effects on mental health and well-being

Publication . Ramos, Vasco; Salgado Pereira, Nádia

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization fao (1996), “food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and active life”. Original conceptualizations, dating from food crises of the 1970s, linked food security with supply, availability, and price stability of foodstuffs at the national or regional scale. Further understandings, namely Sen’s (1982) work, showed that famines and food poverty were not necessarily the result of supply failures, but derived from distribution problems and specifically from a lack of entitlement to food within a given context. Over the last decades, debates about food security broadened what was originally a more restricted concept, centred on food supply, availability, and stability (Borch and Kjærnes 2016). Additionally, researchers have also considered food security as encompassing access to nutritionally balanced and socially acceptable food, aimed at achieving an active and healthy life (Truninger and Díaz-Méndez 2017). Current conceptualizations regard food security as an ideal situation on a continuum. On the other hand, food insecurity occurs when one or more of the aforementioned criteria are lacking. Thus, this phenomenon may differ according to its severity.

2018Book part

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Emprego, Empregabilidade e Empreendedorismo: As políticas públicas para o emprego jovem

Publication . Ferreira, Tatiana; Vieira, Maria Manuel

2018Report

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A qualidade da Democracia Local vista pelos Presidentes das Assembleias Municipais: Resultados de um Inquérito

Publication . Sousa, Luís de; Grilo, Filipe

2018Report

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Public support for vegetarian meals in public canteens: a preliminary study

Publication . Cardoso, Sónia; Augusto, Fábio Rafael; Nunes, Nádia; Graça, João

In 2016 the United Nations implemented the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets pertaining to the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Scientific evidence suggests that of the 17 goals, at least six would be closer to being accomplished1 if the Global West transitioned to a more plant-based diet.2 In 2006 a fao (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) report identified the livestock sector as “by far the single largest anthropogenic user of land” (Steinfeld et al. 2006, xxi) since it uses no less than 70% of all agricultural land and 30% of the land surface of the planet. This amount of production takes its toll on the environment: the livestock sector operates as a big influencer in climate change, reportedly responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions – a share higher than all transports taken together. The sector is also stated to be one of the greatest contributors to water pollution and biodiversity loss (possibly even being the primary cause) due to its role in deforestation and in “land degradation, pollution, climate change, overfishing, sedimentation of coastal areas and facilitation of invasions by alien species” (Steinfeld et al. 2006, xxii and xxiii).

2018Book part

Open access