The challenges of land tenure for the food assets of quilombos in Goiás

Abstract

The importance of quilombola communities in the cerrado in the State of Goiás can contribute to maintaining biodiversity based on their traditional knowledge to promote the guarantee of sociobiodiversity in this biome. From the realization of an ethnographic approach on food heritage, it was possible to influence historical and structural racism as a matrix of land conflicts, the advancement of agribusiness in the region that has promoted environmental problems. The legacy of food heritage has been maintained by resilience strategies that need to cross the frontier of the solitary struggle of these communities to be protected by the State through public policies that promote social protection by combining dimensions of sustainability and economic-social inclusion. By combining its ancestral wisdom and technological innovations of agroecological systems to promote benefits to nature and society in a sustainable way. For the appreciation of knowledge and healthy and sustainable food heritage, without leaving anyone behind and to make human life possible on the planet.