Spread across the planet each human being, individually or in community,
aspires for well-being and quality of life, according to the ideal of each one.
However, we all believe that there are always ways to live better. For many people
the measurement of a better life translates into the guarantee of social rights, the
right to basic services, good land, seed and sufficient nutritious food for their
community members. The Mechanism to Facilitate the Participation of Universities
in the Food and Nutrition Security Council of the Community of Portuguese
Speaking Countries is a cooperative academic network fomented by the Community
of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) with support from the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This mechanism works with teaching,
research and extension in the CPLP Food and Nutrition Security Strategy. The
pillars of CPLP Strategy are the strengthening of the governance of public policies
on Food and Nutrition Security at all levels of government, social protection based
on guaranteeing access to food and family farming with a strategy to increase the
availability of good quality food, promoting social and environmental sustainability.
CPLP University Mechanism has provided training processes for technicianswho work in public policies for Food and Nutrition Security and has contributed to
the strengthening of postgraduate programs in Portuguese-speaking African countries.
As consequence, it has favored participatory research and mixed methods as a
theoretical methodological approach. Therefore, it seeks to focus on the territories
of Food and Nutrition Security practices to transform reality, as recommended
by CPLP Strategy, however, with the autonomous assumptions of the collaborative
network. This chapter presents how local researchers perceive the results of a
process of inducing an academic network to transform the local reality and promote
Food and Nutrition Security in the context of the CPLP.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
