Estratégias de desenvolvimento e fortalecimento da produção e processamento de alimentos na comunidade tradicional do Quebra Fogo, Irará - Bahia

Abstract

Peasent production is responsible for putting quality food on the populations table, thus ensuring food and nutritional security in the bias of a production that respects the relationsship between man and nature. In this sense, the present research , developed in the traditional Community of Quebra-Fogo, municipality of Irará-BA, aims to carry out an analysis in the Community organization from the application of the Participatory Rural Diagnostic tool-DRP and to present strategies that contribute to the improvement development and strengthening of local food production .To achieve the proposed objective , we used the techniques and tools of participatory research with the development of bibliographic, documentary and field research in the latter, the workshops,diagnostic application, meetings, etc stand out. As a result, we highlight Agrater concern with the presentation of local production, farmers with food production space with machinery enabling an aggregation of production value, insertion of food labeling acquisition of manioc seeds variety. Of Sweet cassava thus serving the consumer market, increase of local production, farmers accessing the paa and PNAE, most inportanly, the Community visualized through the research that the strategies in the production of food are af fundamental inportance for the social reproductin in the territory due to the agrarian question tha by itself does not guarantee the permanence due to the percentage of land for the residents, being of fundamental imprtance the Search for innovatios. In these terms, such actions made it possible for the residents to take a critical look at the issues that impede local development, while at the same time pointing out means of confrontation.