This qualitative research has the aim of identifying educational practices and conceptions of nutritionists from the Technical Supervision Team of Instituto de Nutrição Annes Dias, an institution subordinated to the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, responsible for the technical Development of the School Nutritional Program, and the comprehension of these professionals concerning their role in the Program. This Program is identified with the Human Rights Declaration, more specifically with the Human Right to Food and also with the Food and Nutritional Security policies. Competence and health promotion were used as categories previously defined for speech analysis - field research data - enlarged by the following themes: communication/information, multidisciplinary team-work, social control and food and nutritional security and identified in the nutritionists´ practices.
Nutritional education; Food security; Health promotion