Nutritional Education and its Impact in the Copalacaya, Choquenaira, Callisaya and Muruamaya Communities of La Paz

• Main Author: Mamani Arias, Rosa Yolanda
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 1999
• Subjects: Nutrition counseling; La Paz (Bolivia); Educational Methods; Health and Physical Education; Life Sciences; Sociology
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5394; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6393&context=etd

This investigation was conducted with the collaboration of the authorities of the Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética (UMSA) and the Institute of Agriculture and Food Science Ezra Taft Benson. The general secretaries, mayor scholars Management 1998, rural professors and farmers of the communities of Copalacaya, Choquenaira, Callisaya and Muruamaya of the province of Ingavi of the Department of La Paz. It has been very gratifying for the author to carry out this research in said communities, in addition to knowing the reality in which these farmers live, with whose collaboration valuable information was collected that permitted an analysis on the education, social and food situation that are present. The document that offers the dissemination, confirms that it the work performed by the investigator is important, applying to the education to improve to a certain extent the food situation of these families. I desire that this study be fruitful for the career of Nutrition and Dietetics of UMSA. The institute of Agriculture and Food Sciences Ezra Taft Benson, as for any institution that wants to take as a point of reference for further research. My message of OVERCOMING in diverse manual, social and cultural areas goes to farming mothers; and this in every moment of life.