A produção de farinha de mandioca como estratégia de soberania alimentar: um estudo de caso da comunidade do Maranhão em Parintins/AM.

Abstract

This article discusses Food Sovereignty through the production, consumption, Commercialization and exchange of cassava flour used as the strategic food of the Community of Maranhão, INCRA settlement, in Parintins. Cassava flour is Our object of study by which we will unveil your organization at various times as Part of the food sovereignty of this community. This reality is notorious in a municipality that Has suffered for some time from the shortage of this food and that it needs to import large Part of other municipalities, especially in the state of Pará. There is no food crisis. The availability of this food is annual among families Peasants who use the "bread of the tropics", flour is part of the resistance to Homogeneity of modern food loaded with agrochemicals and diseases. Feeding It is life, it is culture, it is resistance. On the other hand it may mean the opposite of all, when The balance between social, cultural and market relations is sought. THE Macroeconomics acts and interferes in a meaningful way in the life of the communities throughout the Globe and in the community of Maranhão is no different. Differentiated is the way to face these Changes. Community members seek independence by defining production strategies, Exchange and commercialization, that is, in doing so they reproduce their own way of life. Beyond Addition, the 'bread of the tropics' referred to is an inheritance of our ancestors and has Important in the regional food and also of the parintinense people. However, this food Is still marginalized in relation to others, as there are few studies on flour and its Relationship with the food sovereignty of the Amazonian peoples. In this way, the objective of this Work is to know the process of organizing the production, marketing and exchange of Manioc flour, verifying the strategies for food sovereignty of the community of the Maranhão