DADOS SOBRE A ENTREGA DOS PANEIROS CABANOS GRUCA + IACITATÁ, NOS ANOS DE 2020 E 2021

Abstract

In Brazil, the Covid-19 Pandemic has interfered in the dynamics of social, economic and political relations since the year 2020. From this perspective, this article seeks to elucidate facts and data about the commercialization activity of direct food sales groups on this Covid-19 Pandemic context. The GRUCA+Iacitatá network is made up of groups wich makes a notable contribution to agroecology in the state of Pará, northern Brazil and the eastern Amazon: the Grupo para Consumo Agroecológico (GRUCA), a responsible consumption group that makes political food consumption possible, a defender of movements fighting for land, and the Instituto Iacitatá de Cultura Alimentar, a food culture point that has a physical space in Belém-PA and that fights for the Human Right to Adequate Food (DHAA) and for the rights of traditional peoples and communities. The GRUCA+Iacitatá network operates in the Metropolitan Region of the municipality of Belém and covers farmers from several states in Brazil, in addition to the state of Pará. The research in question has a qualitative and quantitative character, with graphs prepared by the managers of GRUCA, and which expose data on the commercialization of Paneiros Cabanos GRUCA+Iacitatá in the years 2020 and 2021, showing that since March 2020 there has been a considerable growth in consumers and sales, and consequently represented an important source of income for farmers in the GRUCA+Iacitatá network, as well as explaining that GRUCA was fundamental in times of the Covid-19 Pandemic for the disposal of agroecological foods, avoiding the exposure of farmers to the Covid-19 virus.