Chronosystem |
Valorization of cooking and eating in food culture |
- Develop and finance comprehensive campaign to promote healthy cooking and eating, based on an equitable division of domestic labor, implemented on different online platforms and media channels - Develop dietary guidelines based on foods and meals (instead of nutrients) that value home cooking |
Food system committed to prosperity, equity, sustainability, and health |
- Tax incentives for family farming - Encourage local and traditional food practices - Ban participation by food industry representatives from policymaking on food and nutrition, given the potential for conflict of public and private interests - Establish governance structures to improve the coherence of policies in agriculture, food, health, innovation/research, and development policies |
Macrosystem |
Guarantee of human right to adequate and healthy food |
- Guarantee access to food for all, upholding the human right to adequate and healthy food - Eliminate hunger and reduce food insecurity |
Guarantee of health |
- Improve the functioning of the public health system, enforcing its principles and guidelines - Guarantee efficient public security and transportation - Generate opportunities for work and income, social inclusion, reduction of poverty, the efforts against discrimination, and decrease in the populations’ vulnerability - Reinforce fundings for health research to generate consistent indicators to support adequate interventions |
Guarantee of education |
- Guarantee good quality public education for all |
Defense of food sovereignty |
- Encourage local agriculture and family farming - Foment local food markets - Invest in the cultivation of creole seeds and encourage their continuity in traditional communities |
Exosystem Public policies devoted to: |
Social well-being |
- Guarantee minimum subsistence for citizens within parameters of human dignity. This can be done through cash transfer programs; increases in the minimum wage; construction of daycare centers; shelters for the elderly and homeless children, all fundamental aspects for upholding people’s rights and for a sustainable and inclusive development |
Food and nutrition security |
- Tax unhealthy foods (e.g., sugary beverages, fast food, ultra-processed meats, cookies, etc.) and invest this tax revenue in public health - Provide clear and easy-to-read information on food packaging - Ban misleading and abusive advertising - Promote food and nutrition education via the public health and educational system - Promote and expand access to subsidized unprocessed or minimally processed foods |
Promotion of gender equity |
- Promote equal opportunities for individuals of diverse genders - Contribute to the deconstruction of stereotypes and prejudices that interfere directly in the way people carry out work in the public and private spheres |
Promotion of racial equality |
- Formulation, implementation, and maintenance of affirmative actions with the objective of reversing negative representation of blacks; promote equal opportunities; and fight prejudice and racism |
Encouragement for cooking |
- Include questions about cooking in national surveys on health in order to understand the panorama on the subject and act more efficiently in initiatives for its promotion and support - Commit to continuous support for research and initiatives to promote and support cooking, as a way of preventing diet-related noncommunicable diseases - Fund the construction of collective kitchens in settlements and regions with greater social vulnerability |
Encouragement for agroecological family and urban farming |
- Promote initiatives that guarantee sustainable farm production and provide broad and coordinated support for interventions aimed at creating and maintaining spaces for collective farming |
Healthy use of time |
- Guarantee labor rights such as paid lunch break and not extending beyond the maximum workday - Improve public transportation, especially in large cities and in the itineraries with the heaviest commuting of workers - Account for the time spent in domestic work, which is currently invisible, in order to compensate for it in the productive workweek |
Mesosystem |
Availability and access to unprocessed or minimally processed foods |
- Improve the availability of healthy foods and limit the availability of unhealthy foods in institutional settings such as schools, universities, and workplaces |
Social movements |
- Support and lend visibility to movements that publicize the benefits of cooking and the harms of consuming ultra-processed foods |
Microsystem |
Kitchen with basic infrastructure |
- Reduce the Industrialized Products Tax (IPI in Portuguese) levied on home appliances such as stoves and refrigerators |
Importance assigned to cooking |
- Improve the population’s nutrition through strategies in education and stimulus for the consumption of unprocessed or minimally processed foods |
Sharing cooking activities |
- Invest in and foment projects aimed at promoting more equitable involvement in household chores by women and men, in different communications media (i.e., online and in-person), through different educational strategies (i.e., workshops and chats) and targeted to various audiences (i.e., schoolchildren and health unit users) |
Purchasing power with critical analysis |
- Generate opportunities for work and income, social inclusion, reduction of poverty, efforts against discrimination, and mitigation of the populations’ vulnerability - Promote and finance initiatives in food and nutrition education |
Agent |
Knowledge of adequate and healthy eating |
- Starting in preschool, provide and implement practical cooking activities for the development of cooking skills and home economics content - Develop, implement, and finance initiatives for encouragement and training in cooking skills, home economics, and adequate and healthy eating, conducted in schools, health units, and social services, among others |
Interest, self-confidence, and disposition for cooking |
Cooking skills |
Strategic attitude |
Experience and contact with cooking |