Segurança alimentar em comunidades quilombolas: estudo comparativo de Santo Antonio (Concórdia do Pará) e Cacau (Colares, Pará)

Abstract

In this research the slight knowledge of alimentary security are presented, sovereignty and the dynamics of groups quilombolas through the analysis and quarrel of the alimentary diet and its transformations in the communities of the Cacau and Santo Antonio from the study of the ways of acquisition, social relations and its influence in the health of populations. The feeding system of the localities passes for a process of change occasioned, over all by the exhaustion of the nature resources associated with the population growth and the external pressure on the territories making it demands for more financial resources for its acquisition, what contributes in negative way in the diet, beyond causing changes in the alimentary habits. The feeding effect on social groups diet is demonstrated through a nutritional evaluation executed among the families members (adult, adolescent and children). Thus a comparison among the research results in the two communities is done so that the differences and the singularities in relation to the alimentary and nutricional security are observed.