This research proposes a reflection on the processes that involve the alimentary
trajectory of the quilombola community Bairro Alto, Salvaterra municipality, Ilha
do Marajó, Pará State. I started from the cultural dimensions in the context of
knowledge and practices, the ways of producing, obtaining, preparing,
packaging and consuming food in the quilombo. Guided by the timeline, I also
outline striking events such as endogenous and exogenous conflicts, care
policies such as family grants and also "new formats" of income, and how these
processes affect food and nutritional security in the community in question.
From the situational croqui, inspired by the New Social Cartography of the
Amazon (PNCSA), I present the use of the territory in the past, present and
future, and relate food sovereignty, agroecology and permaculture to the
territorial management of projects desired by the community studied. Field
research occurred in the year 2016 and used as a method, from a systemic
approach, free list, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, collective
construction of situational croqui and ethnophotography. The research showed
that the quilombolas of Bairro Alto consume 238 food items from different
sources and categories, which represent the domain of living knowledge of the
appropriation of nature for food purposes, although many of these foods are
industrialized. The yearning for community projects reflects the need to seek
new sources of income where environmental quality is restored and the
community links present in the territory can be rescued in some parts and
innovated in others. Territorial management mechanisms will be extremely
important in order to be able to assess the necessary areas and their respective
uses in the short, medium and long term in order to guarantee the reproduction
of the local culture and generate social, economic and environmental benefits.
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