The author reports the importance of food and nutritional surveillance, the frustations experienced during its implementation, and challenges faced in the development of Sisvan, analysing their varions dimensions - political, technical, organizational, operational and social - as well as recent perspectives generated by the recognition of nutritional aspects as a mandatory reference for social and economic policies. Emphasis is given to surveillance as a basically local activity in nature, supported by decentralization proposals which are materialized in the municipalization of health services.
Nutritional Surveillance; Food Surveillance