Capacity-building in vegetable production free from biological and chemical contamination in the Brazilian North, Northeast, Midwest and Southeast

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According to a mapping made by the Brazilian Family Budget Survey, which investigates individual food consumption in a total sample of homes, there is a scenario that favors an epidemic of obesity and other non-communicable chronic conditions related to excessive and/or unbalanced food consumption. Thus encouraging the consumption of vegetables helps healthy diets, since they are served on the side of a protein and a carbohydrate. Vegetables are low in calories and rich in water, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. A production based on good agricultural practices, combined with cultivation techniques that provide the harvest of safe food, entails the proposal of training for multipliers, i.e. extension workers and family farmers who work as information multipliers. Promoting training courses aims at an effective understanding of the basic production system in a healthy and educational way.

Status: Completed Start date: Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 Conclusion date: Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020

Head Unit: Embrapa Vegetables

Project leader: Flavia Maria Vieira Teixeira

Contact: flavia.vieira@embrapa.br

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