Productive Quilombo, Ancestral Cultivation! | Cantos do Sabiá

João Lucas França – Radio host and communicator for the Sabiá Center.

Cantos do Sabiá is on the air to open Black Awareness Month with agriculture that has everything to do with blackness. Today we’re talking about productive Quilombo, ancestral cultivation!

Ancestry, resistance and resilience have everything to do with food, production and living well! The IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, provides data never before seen in our country on the quilombola population: there are 386,750 quilombolas counted in the last census of 2022, of which 29,814 are in Pernambuco!

The quilombola population is the bearer of this ancestry, of the roots and history of our country before it was a country; of the gardens, productive backyards, of planting and harvesting… All of this is agriculture!

And it’s to salute, recognize and also discuss everything that involves ancestry and cultivation that today we’re talking to researcher Joise Maria! Black woman, Makota de Oxum from the Lembarocy terreiro in Salvador, nutritionist from UNEB. Master’s and PhD student in Food, Nutrition and Health at UFBA. She is a researcher with an interest in Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security, Traditional Peoples of African origin and Quilombolas.

Cantos do Sabiá is the Centro Sabiá’s Podcast! Weekly we discuss agroecology, sustainability and politics in the countryside and in the city! The podcast goes live every Monday, with the complete interview edition that originally made up the Center’s radio program. https://spoti.fi/31VtUj5