Family agriculture and sustainability in Mirangaba Street Fair, Bahia, Brazil

The street fairs of northeastern Brazil focus on the distribution of basic products, becoming important spaces for social integration, with family farming as the basis for the production of street fairs in municipalities smaller than 20 thousand inhabitants. The relationship between street markets and family farming was the basis of this research, which aims to characterize the fair, outline the profile of the fairgrounds, as well as analyze the process of production and marketing of family farming in the street fair of Mirangaba, Bahia, Brazil, from the perspective of sustainable development. Information was collected from interviews. It was found that there is a great role of women in this space, that local quilombola communities play an important role in the food supply for the fair, that Mirangaba farmers maintain sustainable practices regarding agricultural activities and the use of surplus production, guaranteed by family use, reciprocity between neighbors and other sustainable practices, but lacking more technical support and public encouragement.