Uma abordagem sobre educação ambiental e segurança alimentar com a utilização de Plantas Convencionais e não Convencionais (PANCS)

Abstract

The present work is based on the project that aimed to promote environmental education in a school unit in a peri-urban area of the municipality of Nova IguaÁu, in Baixada Fluminense. Motivated by the perception of the precarious socioeconomic conditions of the families surrounding this unit. Considering the urgency of seeking opportunities within the community to improve the quality of life and create ways to generate income. In this sense, the work sought to raise awareness among students, from the environmental education developed through workshops at school and the production of an e-book, where it was possible to put into practice the knowledge in the direction of the potential of their backyards, bringing as an alternative knowledge on unconventional food plants (PANCS). Living in a time of pandemic, unemployment has made family sustainability a major problem that in a way has affected the food of its members, in addition to triggering a serious economic moment, where many families have lost income because of overwhelming unemployment, with this emphasizing the issue of food security, since these families lost nutritional quality by eating. Therefore, using their backyards, such families may have the possibility of minimizing these nutritional losses with fruit and vegetables without the use of pesticides, and also using healthy nutrition.