Pandemia da COVID-19 e alimentação em comunidades e aldeias da reserva extrativista Tapajós-Arapiuns, Pará

Abstract

The purpose of this pandemic was to identify the main impacts of Covid-19 on work on food consumption and production, in the first half of 2020, in rural communities located in the Tapajós Arapiuns Extractive Reserve, municipality of Santarém, Brazil. Despite the fact that independent pandemic studies do not refer to rural food problems to understand the problems and gaps of traditional food production in the Amazon with regard to a traditional food diet. Empirical data collection was carried out through interviews with leaders from 13 communities and villages in the Resex Tapajós-Arapiuns. industrial results because the consumption of food from suppliers precedes the part of food consumption, mainly of lattes, those that precede the pandemic. However, with the arrival of Covid-19, the consumption of these foods increased; from the food deficit, it improved from the month of May, due to the action of basic food baskets through organizations undertaken by leaders of community projects and associations, public managers and partner agents. As for the food production activities, the training representatives considered that they did not exist, as the activities related to food, swidden and flour production continued to be presented by family members. However, with the closing of schools, there was an increase in the presence of children in the fields. With regard to agro-extractive production, there was an impact on the socioeconomic dynamics in communities that work in non-timber extractivism. It is also noteworthy that the relationship of families with medicinal plants was essential for the treatment of salons that fell ill with Covid-19.