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ABSTRACT The present study systematized the experience gained with the project Construindo capacidades em segurança alimentar e nutricional no Brasil, Canadá e Angola (2004-2010, Building food and nutrition security skills in Brazil, Canada, and Angola), whose objective was to qualify actions that promote food and nutrition security in the three countries using different educational practices. The activities were organized in the following subprojects: (a) online distance learning courses; (b) workshops to train managers, government technicians, representatives of civil society organizations, and social subjects who offered to act as a link between communities; and (c) local pilot projects. The present study reports this experience. The educational practices implemented in the municipalities of Araçuaí (MG), Juazeiro (BA), and Fortaleza (CE) were analyzed based on systematized information in the project reports and activity records (texts and photographs). The analytical reference was based on the concept of food and nutrition education, guided by the fundamentals of Popular Education and Paulo Freire; on the concept of food and nutrition security; and on the following analytical dimensions: participation, contextualization of educational practices, and intersectoriality. The results evidenced how educational practices contributed to the construction of shared concepts of food and nutrition security from an intersectoral and participatory perspective that values the peculiarities of diet in different socioeconomic and cultural contexts, and highlights daily situations and local traditions. They also expose the limits and potentialities of an experience of this magnitude, conducted from an interdisciplinarity perspective and using participatory methods.

The significance of political participation in social governance and development is increasingly prominent. Citizens' institutionalized political participation stands as a primary symbol of realizing people's ownership. Public trust in government, a crucial emotional element of political participation, serves as a bridge for institutionalized political participation. This study formulates a moderated mediation model, encompassing public cognition, emotions, attitudes, and political behaviors. The model aims to elucidate the attributional paths of governmental governance capacity, social justice, and social security on public trust in government and political participation. The findings underscore three pivotal antecedents of public trust in government: citizens perceptions of governance capacity, social justice, and social security foster political participation behavior through public trust in government, subsequently influencing overall political participation. Political efficacy plays a moderating role, influencing the strength of the mediating effect from public trust in government to institutionalized political participation. This addresses a gap in prior research on the intrinsic motivation of citizens' political engagement. The study emphasizes the role of political efficacy in facilitating and motivating individuals for "orderly political participation," providing a practical foundation for enhancing the stability of social governance and democratic development.

The article introduces a text corpus containing all the legal acts adopted by the European Union from 1 December 2009 till 30 June 2019; it also provides an open-source built-for-purpose software toolbox that can be used to re-create and manipulate the dataset. The dataset, as well as the software toolbox, are publicly available on GitHub at: https://github.com/ndrplz/eurlextoolbox. The article describes the content and possible uses of the dataset and maps out some potential applications thereof. Since EU law plays a key role in virtually all aspects of European integration, we believe that the dataset, by making the legal dimension easily accessible, could be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience. Building on previous literature on text-as-data approaches and qualitative methods applied to EU law, we make the case for an interdisciplinary agenda, and then illustrate it through research questions in a distinctive area of EU foreign affairs: the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
European Union Law, European Union Law Database, Research Methodology, Data analysis, Text-as-Data, Corpus Analysis, Common Foreign and Security Policy

This paper explores transformations in the form, purpose and administration of income support law and policies for people with disabilities in the Australian social security system. It identifies a paradigm change which has reinforced a medicalized model of the concept and measurement of disability within social security law, effectively removing from policy discourse and practice recognition of the social and economic factors that influence the capacity for labor force participation. We examine the ways in which the current welfare reform agenda of the Federal Government has developed a disability discourse which constructs the individual as the 'problem' within the welfare system. Changes to eligibility criteria and assessment procedures for disability income support are increasingly based on conceptions of an impaired body, while, paradoxically, welfare reform is increasingly focused on the necessity to meet 'mutual obligation' through market participation (the key-words of the 'new welfare'). We explore the extent to which these policy transformations in Australia are likely to facilitate or impede market participation for people of working age with a disability. Wherever appropriate, comparisons are made with disability income support and employment programs in the USA.