Desmontes das políticas de fortalecimento da agricultura camponesa e insegurança alimentar: o Quilombo Serradinha – Fátima (BA) como estudo de caso

Abstract

In the context of the globalization of capitalism and the liberalization of agriculture, the reduction in land income ceases to be local and becomes international, transforming rural production into commodities. From this perspective, international organizations argue that the right to food can be ensured through increased productivity and free trade, with the market and not the State as the regulator of the food production and distribution process. However, food security cannot be achieved without people ensuring their sovereignty and autonomy to define policies for supply, production and access to quality food from peasant agriculture. However, in recent years Brazil has faced a situation of dismantling of public policies external to peasant agriculture, one of its most evident consequences being the resurgence of hunger in the country. In this sense, seeking to understand the advancement of food insecurity in peasant territories, we established as a general objective: to understand the advancement of food insecurity in peasant territories in the context of dismantling public policies to encourage peasant agriculture from Quilombo Serradinha, Fátima- BA, The specific objectives are: to demonstrate the importance of food production as a social reproduction strategy for the Fatima peasantry; Identify the main foods produced by peasants in the municipality of Fátima – BA and investigate the incidence of food and nutritional insecurity among peasants in Quilombo Serradinha. The method of analysis of this qualitative study was historical and dialectical materialism, considered as an instrument for elucidating social characteristics in their transformation process.