TRADITIONAL MEMORIES, FLAVORS, CULTURE AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: THE FREE MARKETS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE EATING BUSHES

Abstract

The street markets are powerful spaces for sales, food promotion, they are configured as a builder of stories, culture, affective memories, consolidation of bonds of friendship and relationship of trust between customers, customers or even occasional visitors. As a space for social interaction and resignification of eating habits, it is an environment in which different people circulate daily. Due to its relevance as a disseminator of popular knowledge, ancestral knowledge, it was sought to investigate its contributions to the commercialization of eating bushes and the promotion of food security. This research has the general objective of promoting the debate on food security and sovereignty, as well as the appreciation of food culture from the sale of weeds to eat in open markets. This objective unfolds into three specific objectives: i) to verify which are the eating bushes that are sold at the fairs, ii) to promote the dissemination of the eating bushes, highlighting their contribution to a healthy diet free of poisons. As for the methodological instruments, an analysis of research carried out on street markets was carried out, through a bibliographic review based on searches of academic articles on google scholar, in the Brazilian Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). As a result, we observed that the weeds are sold in some free and agroecological markets in Brazil, this perspective was evident in the studies carried out. We conclude, therefore, that these foods are powerful for confronting food insecurity, an alternative for replacing industrialized food products from a homogeneous food system that follow patterns and influence the food culture of diverse populations and communities.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.001-012