Gastronomia social como alternativa ao desenvolvimento regional em Tabatinga-AM

Abstract

Tabatinga is a municipality in the interior of Amazonas, with an estimated population of 68,502 inhabitants, where 11,089 families live in extreme poverty, poverty or low-income situations, representing a significant number of people in social vulnerability. This data has worsened even more due to Covid-19, which has drastically reduced purchasing power and access to healthy and adequate food. Therefore, the objective of this research is to demonstrate how the Solidarity Economy, through social gastronomy, presents itself as an alternative for the socioeconomic development of the municipality of Tabatinga-AM. The object of study of this research is the relationship between regional development and the Cozinhas Solidárias project, a project by Gastromotiva in partnership with the Instituto Acariquara recently developed in the municipality. To reach the objective, we used as a methodological procedure: action research and content analysis, which allowed us to know the purpose of the project, the role of each collaborator within the project, the positive results achieved and what perspectives were created by the social agents studied in this study. search. A SWOT analysis of the Institute and the cook's MEI was also carried out, in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and analyze the possible opportunities and threats that the project could have generated for both. With the research carried out, we understand that social gastronomy, through the Solidarity Economy, shows itself as a promising path for the regional development of the municipality in question.