Study title

Brazil

Individual

Organization

Data collection was with three key groups: young people, aged 10-24, in the MRPSRBSSNS; key professionals working in the MRPSRBSSNS, Sao Paulo State, and Brazil more widely; a range of young people who took part in the global video competition.Survey: We designed a comprehensive survey to understand young people’s relationships with food-water-energy. The survey was launched in April 2017 and ran until May 2018. We collected 3,705 responses from young people in the case study region, with a purposive sampling strategy to ensure representative samples for each of the sub-regions of the MRPSRBSSNS. This is one of the largest surveys ever undertaken, anywhere, with young people; it is also one of the largest and most comprehensive datasets about resources and everyday life ever compiled.Stakeholder interviews: 64 participants took part in detailed (up to three hours in length), semi-structured key stakeholder interviews. Interviewees were sampled using purposive and snowballing techniques, and represented a range of professions linked to the project, including: municipal, state and federal-level government actors; government, academic and independent research agencies; environmental and consumer rights NGOs; energy and water distribution companies (both private and state-private partnerships); family and small-scale commercial WEF producers; multi-stakeholder community organisations; and, environmental education practitioners.Qualitative methodologies with young people: 48 young people, aged 10-24, participated in this part of the project. Young people took part in several activities, all of which built towards an understanding of how food, water and energy (and more) intersected in their everyday lives. The following is a breakdown of the activities: i) semi-structured interview 1: an introductory interview focusing on ‘My life, food-water-energy’; ii) use of a bespoke mobile app (data not deposited on ReShare because of confidentiality issues), which asked young people to take pictures of food, water and energy in their everyday lives and comment on the pictures in the app, over the course of a week; iii) a mobility mapping exercise (via the app), which traced young people's movements during the week they used the app (again, not deposited on ReShare because of confidentiality issues; iv) a visual web, where young people pasted images from the app and discussed their nexuses (again cannot be deposited on ReShare because they contain confidential information that cannot be redacted withouth the webs losing their meaning). Data were transcribed and translated and data analysis is ongoing using NVivo.Video competition: Separately, we ran a global video competition asking young people from around the world to submit videos about food, water and energy in their everyday lives. Ten entries for the video competition were received from Brazil, India, Singapore and UK. The winning entry was Amigos da Natureza Salvando Planeta – based on 800 likes. The videos were watched in Brazil, UK, India, Hungary and Kazakhstan – and watched in total 5,780 times. The data deposited in ReShare contains a document with a link to the videos and further information about the competition.