Cecilia Rocha
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Rocha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Rocha |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4044-9780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Outdoor Thermal Comfort of Older People in Vulnerable Urban Areas in a Warming World
Amid growing concerns over global warming, ensuring the outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) of public urban spaces is crucial for creating liveable and resilient cities. This study focused on the intensification of the urban heat island (UHI) effect and the heat stress experienced by the vulnerable older population. Evidence was found through the case study in a highly vulnerable area of Porto, with a high ageing ratio. The primary aim was to assess th…
Community‐Supported Agriculture in Brazil
The current shape of the world’s food system has promoted increasingly globalized food models, putting people’s food sovereignty and security at risk. Community‐supported agriculture (CSA), a movement grounded on ecologically‐based agriculture and an alternative model for marketing and distributing food produced on small farms, was proposed as a means of improving consumers’ eating habits, strengthening local food production, and promoting food s…
Participatory Methods to Support Climate Adaptation for Older Adults Living in Vulnerable Urban Areas
Urban environments and climate-related challenges impact older adults' health and well-being. To address these challenges, climate adaptation strategies and urban design guidelines should be tailored to older adults' needs. Ethnographic studies can help identify these needs by involving them directly in the research process. This study uses ethnographic research to explore older adults' perceptions and behaviours regarding climate change risks an…
Delivering food, working with hunger
We are invisible to society
The COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the scenario of low income, hunger, unemployment, and informality generated by the 2017 Labor Reform and the dismantling of social policies, leading many workers to enter the food delivery business that misses labor rights or protection. Thus, this study aimed at investigating how such working conditions impacted food delivery workers' health and quality of life in Curitiba, Brazil, during the pandemic according t…
A gente é invisível pra sociedade
A pandemia de covid-19 agravou as situações de renda, fome, desemprego e informalidade provocados pela Reforma Trabalhista de 2017 e pelo desmonte de políticas sociais, levando muitos trabalhadores ao ramo da entrega de comida sem direitos ou garantias de proteção. Este trabalho procurou investigar as condições de trabalho e o impacto na saúde e qualidade de vida de entregadores de comida de Curitiba/PR, de acordo com as categorias de entrega, du…
Chronic diseases and emotional disorders are associated with low perception of quality of life in food insecurity/security
Understanding individual perception of Quality of Life (QoL) can help combat social and health inequalities. We aimed to identify factors associated with Low Perceived Quality of Life (LPQoL) in 295 adults and older adults with food security and food insecurity, in the city of Natal, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to December 2019, with collection of data on socioeconomic demographic status, lifestyle information, non-com…
Models of governance in community gardening
Positive outcomes from community gardening contribute to the fulfilment of several agendas related to food and nutrition security, urban sustainability, and environmental education. Under this presupposition, several umbrella organisations in the public or nonprofit sectors have been supporting community garden projects. Bottom-up with political and/or administrative support is a governance model in community gardening in which the community plan…
Expanding the limits of sex
Objective: To examine the literature and identify main themes, methods and results of studies concerning food and nutrition addressed in research on transgender populations. Design: A systematic review conducted through July 2020 in the MedLine/PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases. Results: Of the 778 studies identified in the databases, we selected thirty-seven. The studies were recent, most of them published after 2015, being produced in…
Evidence-Based Policymaking in the Food–Health Nexus
This article examines the role of evidence in influencing food and nutrition-related public health policy, and starts to chart a way through the political economy of knowledge and evidence within this nexus. We propose an analytical framework for untangling the influence of food industry interests and public health concerns in the policy process, presenting a guiding structure for how an issue might move between contested and uncontested policy s…
Education, practical training and professional development for public health practitioners
Objective Noting the upstream positioning of sustainable food systems (SFS) to multiple global crises, the present review described examples of emerging and promising practices to support SFS-oriented education, practical training (PT) and continuing professional development (CPD) among trainees and public health practitioners (PHP). A secondary objective was to compile the evidence into practical considerations for educators, supervising practit…
Implementing national food policies to promote local family agriculture
Policies in Brazil promoting family agriculture such as the Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) and the 30% minimum procurement law for the National School Meals Programme have had varying success across the country. To understand why these policies work effectively only in some areas, the implementation processes must be clarified. This exploratory, ethnographic study identifies the causal mechanisms involved in implementing PAA and the 30% law in …
Food Sovereignty for Cultural Food Security
The Cinta Vermelha-Jundiba (CVJ) village represents a unique case in Brazil. For the first time in history, an indigenous group composed of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds (Pankararu and Pataxó) united and proposed to buy land. The singularity of the case is not that different indigenous peoples got together to create a new life, but that they decided to purchase land. Exploring the concept of “cultural food security,” this paper ad…
Food security and gender mainstreaming
While gender mainstreaming strategies are promoted by major international organizations and national governments, a growing literature has reported critiques. This paper focuses on gender mainstreaming strategies as one aspect of a project implemented in Brazil and discusses the effects of the strategy in three urban areas. The analysis suggests that implementation practices can be key to increasing positive gender outcomes
Food Insecurity Among Latin American Recent Immigrants in Toronto
Building Capacity for Sustainable Development
The cooperation between Brazil and Canada in support of projects with the National Service for Industrial Apprenticeship (SENAI) has been seen in both countries as a history of successes. The paper describes the Canadian supported projects developed and implemented at SENAI, and considers the many lessons learned from over twenty years of cooperation. Both the process of learning and the strategic application of the lessons learned have contribut…
Food Sovereignty for Cultural Food Security
The Cinta Vermelha-Jundiba (CVJ) village represents a unique case in Brazil. For the first time in history, an indigenous group composed of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds (Pankararu and Pataxó) united and proposed to buy land. The singularity of the case is not that different indigenous peoples got together to create a new life, but that they decided to purchase land. Exploring the concept of “cultural food security,” this paper ad…
Food security and gender mainstreaming
While gender mainstreaming strategies are promoted by major international organizations and national governments, a growing literature has reported critiques. This paper focuses on gender mainstreaming strategies as one aspect of a project implemented in Brazil and discusses the effects of the strategy in three urban areas. The analysis suggests that implementation practices can be key to increasing positive gender outcomes
We are invisible to society
The COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the scenario of low income, hunger, unemployment, and informality generated by the 2017 Labor Reform and the dismantling of social policies, leading many workers to enter the food delivery business that misses labor rights or protection. Thus, this study aimed at investigating how such working conditions impacted food delivery workers' health and quality of life in Curitiba, Brazil, during the pandemic according t…
Implementing national food policies to promote local family agriculture
Policies in Brazil promoting family agriculture such as the Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) and the 30% minimum procurement law for the National School Meals Programme have had varying success across the country. To understand why these policies work effectively only in some areas, the implementation processes must be clarified. This exploratory, ethnographic study identifies the causal mechanisms involved in implementing PAA and the 30% law in …
Building Capacity for Sustainable Development
The cooperation between Brazil and Canada in support of projects with the National Service for Industrial Apprenticeship (SENAI) has been seen in both countries as a history of successes. The paper describes the Canadian supported projects developed and implemented at SENAI, and considers the many lessons learned from over twenty years of cooperation. Both the process of learning and the strategic application of the lessons learned have contribut…
Building Capacity for Sustainable Development
The cooperation between Brazil and Canada in support of projects with the National Service for Industrial Apprenticeship (SENAI) has been seen in both countries as a history of successes. The paper describes the Canadian supported projects developed and implemented at SENAI, and considers the many lessons learned from over twenty years of cooperation. Both the process of learning and the strategic application of the lessons learned have contribut…
Food Insecurity Among Latin American Recent Immigrants in Toronto
Food security and gender mainstreaming
While gender mainstreaming strategies are promoted by major international organizations and national governments, a growing literature has reported critiques. This paper focuses on gender mainstreaming strategies as one aspect of a project implemented in Brazil and discusses the effects of the strategy in three urban areas. The analysis suggests that implementation practices can be key to increasing positive gender outcomes
Food Sovereignty for Cultural Food Security
The Cinta Vermelha-Jundiba (CVJ) village represents a unique case in Brazil. For the first time in history, an indigenous group composed of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds (Pankararu and Pataxó) united and proposed to buy land. The singularity of the case is not that different indigenous peoples got together to create a new life, but that they decided to purchase land. Exploring the concept of “cultural food security,” this paper ad…
Implementing national food policies to promote local family agriculture
Policies in Brazil promoting family agriculture such as the Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) and the 30% minimum procurement law for the National School Meals Programme have had varying success across the country. To understand why these policies work effectively only in some areas, the implementation processes must be clarified. This exploratory, ethnographic study identifies the causal mechanisms involved in implementing PAA and the 30% law in …
Education, practical training and professional development for public health practitioners
Objective Noting the upstream positioning of sustainable food systems (SFS) to multiple global crises, the present review described examples of emerging and promising practices to support SFS-oriented education, practical training (PT) and continuing professional development (CPD) among trainees and public health practitioners (PHP). A secondary objective was to compile the evidence into practical considerations for educators, supervising practit…
Evidence-Based Policymaking in the Food–Health Nexus
This article examines the role of evidence in influencing food and nutrition-related public health policy, and starts to chart a way through the political economy of knowledge and evidence within this nexus. We propose an analytical framework for untangling the influence of food industry interests and public health concerns in the policy process, presenting a guiding structure for how an issue might move between contested and uncontested policy s…
Models of governance in community gardening
Positive outcomes from community gardening contribute to the fulfilment of several agendas related to food and nutrition security, urban sustainability, and environmental education. Under this presupposition, several umbrella organisations in the public or nonprofit sectors have been supporting community garden projects. Bottom-up with political and/or administrative support is a governance model in community gardening in which the community plan…
Expanding the limits of sex
Objective: To examine the literature and identify main themes, methods and results of studies concerning food and nutrition addressed in research on transgender populations. Design: A systematic review conducted through July 2020 in the MedLine/PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases. Results: Of the 778 studies identified in the databases, we selected thirty-seven. The studies were recent, most of them published after 2015, being produced in…
Chronic diseases and emotional disorders are associated with low perception of quality of life in food insecurity/security
Understanding individual perception of Quality of Life (QoL) can help combat social and health inequalities. We aimed to identify factors associated with Low Perceived Quality of Life (LPQoL) in 295 adults and older adults with food security and food insecurity, in the city of Natal, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to December 2019, with collection of data on socioeconomic demographic status, lifestyle information, non-com…
We are invisible to society
The COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the scenario of low income, hunger, unemployment, and informality generated by the 2017 Labor Reform and the dismantling of social policies, leading many workers to enter the food delivery business that misses labor rights or protection. Thus, this study aimed at investigating how such working conditions impacted food delivery workers' health and quality of life in Curitiba, Brazil, during the pandemic according t…
A gente é invisível pra sociedade
A pandemia de covid-19 agravou as situações de renda, fome, desemprego e informalidade provocados pela Reforma Trabalhista de 2017 e pelo desmonte de políticas sociais, levando muitos trabalhadores ao ramo da entrega de comida sem direitos ou garantias de proteção. Este trabalho procurou investigar as condições de trabalho e o impacto na saúde e qualidade de vida de entregadores de comida de Curitiba/PR, de acordo com as categorias de entrega, du…
Community‐Supported Agriculture in Brazil
The current shape of the world’s food system has promoted increasingly globalized food models, putting people’s food sovereignty and security at risk. Community‐supported agriculture (CSA), a movement grounded on ecologically‐based agriculture and an alternative model for marketing and distributing food produced on small farms, was proposed as a means of improving consumers’ eating habits, strengthening local food production, and promoting food s…
Participatory Methods to Support Climate Adaptation for Older Adults Living in Vulnerable Urban Areas
Urban environments and climate-related challenges impact older adults' health and well-being. To address these challenges, climate adaptation strategies and urban design guidelines should be tailored to older adults' needs. Ethnographic studies can help identify these needs by involving them directly in the research process. This study uses ethnographic research to explore older adults' perceptions and behaviours regarding climate change risks an…
Delivering food, working with hunger
Outdoor Thermal Comfort of Older People in Vulnerable Urban Areas in a Warming World
Amid growing concerns over global warming, ensuring the outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) of public urban spaces is crucial for creating liveable and resilient cities. This study focused on the intensification of the urban heat island (UHI) effect and the heat stress experienced by the vulnerable older population. Evidence was found through the case study in a highly vulnerable area of Porto, with a high ageing ratio. The primary aim was to assess th…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Food security (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)