title: How to engage across sectors: lessons from agriculture and nutrition in the Brazilian School Feeding Program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide insights for nutrition and public health practitioners on how to engage with other sectors to achieve public health goals. Specifically, this study provides lessons from the example of integrating family farming and a nutrition into a legal framework in Brazil on how to successfully shift other sectors toward nutrition goals.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study analyzed policy processes that led to a Brazilian law linking family farming with the National School Feeding Program. Main actors involved with the development of the law were interviewed and their narratives were analyzed using a well-established theoretical framework.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study provides five key lessons for promoting intersectorality. First, nutrition and health practitioners can afford to embrace bold ideas when working with other sectors. Second, they should engage with more powerful sectors (or subsectors) and position nutrition goals as providing solutions that meet the interests of these sector. Third is the need to focus on a common goal - which may not be explicitly nutrition-related - as the focus of the intersectoral action. Fourth, philosophical, political, and governance spaces are needed to bring together different sectors. Fifth, evidence on the success of the intersectoral approach increases the acceptance of the process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study on policy processes shows how a convergence of factors enabled a link between family farming and school feeding in Brazil. It highlights that there are strategies to engage other sectors toward nutrition goals which provides benefits for all sectors involved.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Food Policy. School of Arts & Social Sciences. City University London. London, UK.
authors.forename: Corinna
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hawkes
authors.affiliation: Núcleo de Pesquisas Epidemiológicas em Nutrição e Saúde. Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Bettina Gerken
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Brazil
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrição Social. Instituto de Nutrição. Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Inês Rugani Ribeiro de
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.affiliation: Núcleo de Pesquisas Epidemiológicas em Nutrição e Saúde. Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Patricia Constante
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Jaime
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D001938:Brazil; D005522:Food Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D005523:Food Supply; D033161:Government Regulation; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011634:Public Health; D012574:Schools