Healthy cities, agroecology and food sovereignty: (re) significance for facing Covid19 in peri-urban and peripheral regions of DF

The diversified food with a positive impact on health, according to the Food Guide of the Ministry of Health, has in natura and minimally processed foods the nutritional food base that promotes a socially and environmentally sustainable food system. This research, in the scope of urban and regional planning, relates healthy cities, agroecology and food sovereignty in order to study the territory of the Federal District at the interfaces of food, agroecological production in the rural-urban continuum and public food health in the face of COVID19. It aims to understand issues of food supply by short circuit (intraregional supply), from the solidarity networks and the supply flows of the essential needs of the populations and peri-urban and peripheral regions, The UN document (2020) "Shared responsibility, Global Solidarity: responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19" warns that the food supply may be interrupted on a global scale, but the most direct influence during the pandemic is on maintaining the short circuit of supply due to the proximity of the producing areas to the supplied communities. The document produced by social movements, academia and professionals "Combating Pandemic Covid-19 in Urban Peripheries, Favelas and Along with Vulnerable Social Groups: immediate proposals and action strategies in the perspective of the right to the city and social justice" defends the adoption of immediate and structural measures by the competent authorities articulated with civil society and communities in emergency plans and guaranteeing access to drinking water, hygiene services (hygiene and cleaning kits) and food (distribution of basic baskets and healthy food) throughout of the next few months on the peripheries. The National Articulation of Agroecology (ANA) recommends the resumption of the Family Agriculture Food Acquisition Program, with R $ 1 billion in investments, simultaneously with more state programs for the supply of healthy food to the vulnerable population, with producers attending locally in case of imminent shortages. state or national. The crisis imposes (re) signifying actions in the territory and building emergency and subsequent tactics, based on an approach in which access to food and the production of quality food is an opportunity of choice for the population. It is necessary to rethink the form of food production, both in the context of agroecology and in the context of food sovereignty. In addition to redefining "food sovereignty", "healthy city" and others when confronting COVID-19 and its relevance to the later moment. The "Health & Agroecology Study Notebook", 2019, produced by ABA-Agroecology, Fiocruz and National Articulation of Agroecology brings important connections between health and agroecology with an expansion of agroecological research and its base of actors. However, it still has limitations due to intersectoral public misunderstanding and narrowly relating to the social sciences applied in planning the territory and conditions for human survival. The transition to healthy and sustainable agri-food systems allows for more harmonious relations of production and life, above all, through family farming. Food sovereignty is relevant in accessing nearby markets such as fairs and home baskets (Communities that Support Food - CSA) from rural settlements, in addition to social public policies in which the state stands out as an inducer of transformation. With regard to food choices, there is an opportunity to choose foodstuffs featuring family farming based on agroecological models in disputed territories. The diversified agroecological systems allow for better nutrition and a positive impact on health, due to the established agrosystem. Other "alternative agriculture" (organic agriculture, biodynamic agriculture, natural agriculture, organic agriculture, ecological agriculture) derived from agroecology present a better quality of food if the complete productive cycle is analyzed due to the technological and ecological aspects, which differ as sustainable agriculture and conventional agriculture. The concept of "Healthy Cities", addressed since the Ottawa Charter (1986) emphasizes the systemic function of health, inseparable from other public policies with an ecosystemic approach with a transdisciplinary view, complex with methodological pluralism, principles of social participation and equity for definition of an action territory. Thus, this research intends to relate the concept of healthy cities and food sovereignty to understand the situation of the food problem when facing Covid19 in the peri-urban and peripheral regions of the DF, based on a (re) meaning of a healthy city, food sovereignty, food producing and receiving agents in the short supply circuit, in food production networks and their scalar relationship in the territory. In the context of the Federal District, in the city-country relationship there is a potential to strengthen the integration of policies due to the territorial dimension that involves the approach of an urban food system based on the relationship with the rural (peri-urban) area of ​​agroecological production. Examples of short supply circuits are the CSAs, according to the NEA / UnB, in the DF there are 38 CSAs, of which 20 report that during the pandemic there was an increase in the demand for household baskets, the Prospera group of CSAs is supplying about 80 families ( 300 people) weekly. In contrast, other Agrarian Reform settlements not included in the CSAs face difficulties in supplying the local market due to stagnation of fairs and distribution in CEASA and local markets, and consequent loss of production. Soon, they began to donate production, supplying vulnerable communities without access to short supply circuits due to the lack of income necessary to purchase food. In all of Brazil, the MST contributes to the fight against COVID-19 through a solid donation of healthy food from family farming, especially in the south of Brazil, I give five tons of food to more than 500 families. The main objective of this research is to advance the survey of supply networks, especially in the fight against COVID-19. Therefore, data on the producing regions, scale of production and territorial supply, productivity and profile of the producer and the consumer in the DF are the focus of search in the databases of SEAGRI, EMATER, CEASA, Fiocruz (Brasília-Palin), CONAB , CDRS, NEA / UnB, CSAs and MST. Other data will be researched together with social movements, members of BrCidades and technicians from SEDUH to seek socioeconomic issues relevant to the parameters of a healthy city approach. Such data will be searched through questionnaires, collaborative mapping and searching documents, technical reports, information transparency portals, etc. used in making graphics, images, maps and structuring networks, The project is part of the ongoing doctoral research "Urban Design - the urban-rural continuum to plan and design the territory, the agrarian landscape and the food environment" by doctoral student Natália Lemos from PPG / FAU / UnB, and extension partnerships of background work with agrarian reform peasants, by the Research Groups "Peripheral, emerging works," Water and Built Environment "both from PPG / FAU / UnB, by the Popular Cooperative Incubator of FUP / UnB; by the Nucleus of Science, Technology and Society Policy NPCTS / CEAM / UnB and by the Center for Studies, Research and Extension in Agroecology of the University of Brasília (NEA / CDS / FAV / UnB), new partnerships with the Faculties of Health and Education of UnB , researchers from other UNILA and UFCG universities, members of BrCidades, of the Agroecological Communities of Bem Viver, Regional Council for Sustainable Rural Development and Fiocruz. The results will be important to promote transdisciplinary methodological connections within the scope of technical advisory services for the future Multiprofessional Residence CTS - Habitat, Agroecology, Health and Work of UnB, which is under construction.