A importância da biodiversidade para a segurança alimentar de comunidades tradicionais ribeirinhas Amazonicas.

Abstract

Despite the growing number of hungry people spread across the world, Latin America alone has already recorded the loss of approximately 1.3 billion tons of agricultural food that is discarded at various stages of production and, even though it is available on the shelves of food chains, wholesale and retail supermarkets, the problem of access through a Commercial Food System, the lack of income of the majority of the population to purchase food, results in increased food insecurity worldwide. Parallel to this problem, some studies in Brazil invalidate the cultivation of food for subsistence, while at the same time encouraging policies to encourage economically profitable food production for groups that dominate the markets of wholesale and retail networks, and the export of commodities. Faced with the growing number of hungry people, access to food through a Sustainable Autonomous Food System appears as a viable alternative in combating food insecurity, especially for human groups, such as Traditional Riverine Communities who live in rural river areas in the Amazon. Traditional riverside communities have demonstrated, over the years, that Sites with a Hydro-Forest Environment (SIFlor), where there is cultivation, creation, collection, capture and sustainable production of food without pesticides, without agrochemicals, without hormones or any chemical additive that compromises the quality of food, Food Security presents itself as a viable model, without deforestation, with no commercial transactions for consumption purposes and also with the conservation of standing forests, especially native ones. This is how CTAs have preserved the Amazon forest over the centuries.