Globalização e alimentação: as sementes crioulas como símbolo de resistência ao agronegócio

Abstract

Food is part of the sociocultural structure of human populations, which is built over time. In this way, the product is not the only factor that conveys meanings, but also the whole production chain that involves it, as well as the ecosystem to which it belongs. Archeology leans towards the analysis of food as stemming from the process of subsistence and behavioral change, which allows the understanding of how human beings relate to the environment, through the specific choices of each people. Hence, it is necessary to advance the debate and understand food as human beings’s biocultural materiality. In this context, globalization is a capitalist phenomenon, with its roots in the industrial revolution, having impacted the eating habits and practices of traditional populations and society as a whole. On the other hand, social movements linked to agroecology have been practicing remittances through the means for preservation and storage of native seeds, an element of agrobiodiversity among many populations