A rural hub in Brazil connects the babassu harvesters, a female community of workers in Maranhão
The sprawling Maranhão Babaçu forests are home to dazzling flora, but also the traditional community of babassu harvesters. This local, predominantly female group living in the north of Brazil has been working in its distinctive, tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion environment for decades, its daily life and economy strongly linked to the region’s dominant plant, the babassu palm.
However, the recognition and the guarantee by law, at least in some municipalities, of access to land for coconut harvesting, are constantly repressed by landowners, either by hindering access or by cutting down the palm trees to make pasture. The harvesters’ quest for survival is based on strategies such as grouping women through associations, strengthening their representation before institutions, and dignifying their work by trying to add value to the product through alternative applications.
The result is a series of patios, some completely open-air, and some covered, which act as a focal point for the community. ‘Considering that more than 40 women who make part of the group of breakers are mothers and grandmothers, the workplace also becomes a meeting place, a place for social mobilisation and recreation for their families and neighbours,’ the architects said.
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