The photographic series Organic food won a special mention in the South American Contest "FotoMigration: Migration through Other Lenses", organized by the IOM Regional Office for South America. Its author is Nilmar Lage.

Organic food

Organic food depicts the resilience of some internally displaced families in Brazil trying to ensure certain food autonomy and good quality food for their community in the new place where they live. In spite of the adversities, they organise community vegetable gardens, where, in addition to growing fruits and vegetables, native bees are kept to produce wild honey. These communities work to protect the ancestral heritage of native seeds, the production of organic food and the harmonious coexistence with the environment.

Padre Gino camp, FreiInocêncio, Minas Gerais, Brazil, November 23rd, 2018. Families are producing their own food both for home consumption and local open markets.
Community Quilombola Lagoa dos Bois, Nordestina-BA, Brazil, August 18th, 2021. Traditional families are developing a beekeeping cooperative producing honey from the flowering of Caatinga.
Padre Gino camp, FreiInocêncio, Minas Gerais, Brazil, November 23rd, 2018. Families are producing their own food for home consumption and for local open markets.
Quilombola de Queimadas territory, Serro, Minas Gerais, Brazil, July 5th, 2021. The sugar canes planted in the region are processed by a cooperative. Molasses, brown sugar and muscovado sugar are obtained.
Community Quilombola de Absente, Serro, Minas Gerais, Brazil, September 30th, 2021. Traditional families produce organic food, spices and traditional medicine for home consumption and to supply municipal programmes.
Community Quilombola de Absente, Serro, Minas Gerais, Brazil, September 30th, 2021. Traditional families produce organic food, spices and traditional medicine for home consumption and to supply municipal programmes.

Download here the complete book "Migration through Other Lenses" which includes this photographic series and other winners of the South American FotoMigration Contest.

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