Indigenous food security and sovereignty in the extreme north of Amapá – Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Claudiane de Menezes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Noda, Hiroshi, Martins, Ayrton Luiz Urizzi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/14465
• topic: Agrobiodiversidad; Uaçá; Medio ambiente.; Agrobiodiversity; Uaçá; Environment.; Agrobiodiversidade; Uaçá; Meio ambiente.

The indigenous peoples who inhabit Uaçá, in Brazil’s Northern Amapá state, have built a network of complex relationships between visible and invisible beings that bring about the existence of a way of life integrated with the environment. The Galibi-Marworno, Karipuna, and Palikur-Arukwayene indigenous peoples manage to live within the conditions that their territory offers them. They cultivate and manage a high diversity of animal and plant species, make use of different practices, different knowledge, all in a continuous transformation, an eternal new beginning for life, which has ensured their food security and sovereignty.This article examines one of the results of my Ph.D research, which has as its main objective to understand the importance of cultivation and management of agrobiodiversity for food security and sovereignty in Uaçá Indigenous Land. I adopted the case study as a research approach method as well as interdisciplinary techniques for field evidence. During the field research, I gathered field notes, rounds of conversation, oral reports, direct observation, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews.