BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE LAND: AN AGROECOLOGICAL AND TERRITORIAL LOOK AT THE TRADITIONAL FISHING COMMUNITY OF ILHA DE MARÉ, SALVADOR-BA
Agroecology; Artisanal Fisherwomen; Healthy and Sustainable Territory.
The dialogue between artisanal fisherwomen about the right to a healthy and sustainable environment is established as a new claim process for the improvement and quality of life of the traditional quilombola and fishing community, with its celebrated way of life, production and social reproduction. This study aims to analyze the methodological process of the research “Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Territory (TSS) in Traditional Artisanal Fishing Communities, on Ilha de Maré, Salvador-BA”, for the promotion of health, Agroecology and territorial development, coordinated by the Oswaldo Cruz Brasília Foundation, from 2018 to 2022, on Ilha de Maré, Salvador-BA. It used a qualitative approach and bibliographical survey, mapping and analysis of documents, report related to the research, participant observation, semi-structured interviews and record of the oral narrative of artisanal fisherwomen that strengthened the deepening and the need for systematization of the experience in the territory. When developing the methodological process engaged with the TSS, this proved to be a relevant process by highlighting the territorial action to promote environmental health, in an agroecological perspective, with the social participation and autonomy of the subjects involved, assisted for the beginning of training processes. It concludes the importance of valuing and recognizing the fishing world and highlights the need for specific public policies aimed at this population. The TSS shows itself as an “radiography” of the territory and is capable of reapplication in other locations, with a formative and differentiated action, where the exchange of knowledge experienced in the praxis is strengthened between the researcher and as subjects who participated in the research, artisanal fisherwomen, protagonists of their own history.