The food culture as intentionality, that transversaliza research in the Observatory of Food Security and Nutrition of the National University of Colombia

Abstract

From a food perspective it is of significant use to value culture and its elements, for it is a social, psychological, economical symbolical, religious and cultural phenomenon. Considering that mores, habits, and feeding practices are an integral part of a whole culture; food culture must be perceived as a transcendental phenomenon that sets identities, traditions, life stories, ways of being, thinking, resisting and socializing. For all these reasons the observatory of food security and nutrition of the National University of Colombia has moved forward to permanently look at the relationship between food and culture, through the development of analytical and conceptual perspectives, the formulation and analysis of public policies in food security and nutrition, efforts for the recovery of ancestral knowledge of food,  and the analysis of the approaches of measurements of food security and nutrition and food sovereignty.  All these in order to position culture as one of the directing principles of policies   which must be reflected in the territorial plans for food security and nutrition for the achievement of the rights and public actions.