Abstract
Recent crisis and conflicts in African countries, the Middle East and the Americas have led to forced population migration and rekindled concern about food security. This article aims to map in the scientific literature the implications of forced migration on food and nutrition of refugees. Scoping Review, and database search: databases: PubMed Central, LILACS, SciElo, Science Direct and MEDLINE. Languages used in the survey were: English, Portuguese and Spanish, with publication year from 2013 to 2018. 173 articles were obtained and after removing of duplicates and full reading, 26 articles were selected and submitted to critical reading by two reviewers, resulting in 18 articles selected. From the analysis of the resulting articles, the following categories emerged: Food Inequity; Cultural Adaptation and Nutrition; Emerging Diseases and Strategies for the Promotion of Nutritional Health. Food insecurity is a marked consequence of forced international migration, and constitutes an emerging global public health problem, since concomitant with increasing population displacements also widens the range of chronic and nutritional diseases.
Highlights
Food is a basic need of the human being and is included in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 19481
Food insecurity is a marked consequence of forced international migration, and constitutes an emerging global public health problem, since concomitant with increasing population displacements widens the range of chronic and nutritional diseases
The food and nutrition of refugees was addressed under the prospect of settlement in refugee camps, in detention centers, and in destination countries where refuge was granted
Summary
Food is a basic need of the human being and is included in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 19481. The rapid growth in global agricultural productivity has surpassed expectations and the production is able to feed the entire world population. The concept of Food Security was built over the years, and following the World Food Summit Declaration in 2002, it was reaffirmed “...respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms...”[3]. The difficulties of measuring the state of food security have led to the development of the concept of the state of Food Insecurity as “a situation where people do not have access to sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious food and do not consume the food they need to grow normally and lead an active and healthy life”[4]
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