AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS TO THE FOOD OF RURAL SETTLERS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JOSÉ OF CUSMAPA, MADRIZ IN THE YEAR 2008

Abstract

The topic availability and access was framed within feeding
and the Nutritional Security, specifically to the analysis of
the variables availability, access and the improvement of
food of the rural inhabitants of San José de Cusmapa (El
Mojón, El Rodeo and Los Llanitos. Los Angeles I, II, III, San
Francisco de Imides and La Fuente), to provide information
of the current feeding situation thus to orient strategies to
improve the quality of life of the rural inhabitants of the
municipal. The methodology used was participatory with
rural inhabitants of San Jose, communitarian leaders, NGOs
represent in the municipality officials of the Ministry of
Education and Health. They supplied information which
was collected through observation, surveys, and interviews
which were later analyzed and presented to the local officials
incorporating their suggestions to this study, rural inhabitants
of San Jose de Cusmapa were selects because they represents
the 87.1% of extreme poverty according to the map of
poverty of Nicaragua printed in 2001, and about availability
the findings showed that 71.4% did not satisfy their needs,
just the 28.6% satisfies their food needs coinciding with
the study carried out in 2001. And concerning access just
the 10.2% has fully and satisfactory access and food, 79.
6% has a fall access; the 10.2% meet it insufficiently. And
talking about hygiene and improvement of food just 93.9%
make good use of the harvested it their land due to the fact
that most of the inhabitants have received training (61.2%
of the people surveyed) on hygiene, use, and manipulation
of food. San José de Cusmapa presents an acute situation of
food insecurity, due that just 28.6% of the inhabitants of the
zone has at their at disposal secure and stable food, 10.2%
has access to food and 90% make hygienically good use of
the few that has at their disposal and access. The risk factors
of food security are closely related to the prolonged droughts,
inadequate factors of production, low yields, high incident
of plagues and diseases, short of water supplier and seeds,
little presence and support of organizations and high price of
foods.

Keywords: Feeding and nutritional security; availability;
access; hygiene; make good use of food.

DOI: 10.5377/calera.v9i13.14