Agroecologia, resistência e reprodução social: o caso da Associação de Produtores em Agroecologia do município de Pão de Açúcar

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Benatto, Leandro
• Orientador(a): Negreiros, Emílio de Britto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Agroecologia; Agricultura familiar; Reprodução social
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Agroecology; Family agriculture; Social reproduction
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::OUTROS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4209

Agro ecology have gained in a contradictory way more space in the global countryside. In Brazil, their inclusion in public policy reflects the demand and the political strength of this segment played by family farmers. In this context, access to such public policies on the one hand represents an opportunity to enter markets, ensuring the generation of income, autonomy and social reproduction of family farming in order to sociopolitical transformations towards sustainable rural development and on the other hand, operates tactically as capital expansion mechanism to incorporate the products and services from the practices and ways of living and working from the peasantry and the discourse of sustainability as economic dynamism elements. Before this problem, this thesis presents a case study to farmers of the Association of Producers in Agro ecology Sugar Loaf County (APAOrgânico) in Alagoas hinterland, and seeks to understand the process of construction of agro ecological experience APAOrgânico by social subjects from their practices, their ways of life, and their social reproduction strategies and, tangentially, as this is articulated and the influence of public policies for decision making and adherence to agro ecology. The study reconstructs the principal socio-productive systems engendered by the family agriculture to facilitate their social reproduction (economic and cultural) in the riverside portion of Sugarloaf municipality in a sociopolitical context dominated by agrarian elite rancher and its modern expression: agribusiness. The research showed the presence of agro ecological principles and practices carried out by peasant farmers related to the traditional management of the coastal ecosystem as identity elements and sociability, such as rice cultivation in "battalion" system, integrated practice of agriculture and artisanal fisheries, cotton intercropping with food crops, creating loose cattle in the bush and marketing at fairs and local markets. Agro ecology in this context is a constituent part of the lifestyle of the coastal farmers. However, social and environmental changes caused changes in lifestyle requiring flexibility and development strategies to ensure social reproduction. Thus, the membership organization for the production and marketing of organic food emerges as differential accessed by farmers as a marketing opportunity, a chance to facilitate their social reproduction. In this context of multiple interests, dialectically the riverside family farmers linked to APAOrgânico agency develops mechanisms and actively define their forms of resistance, their ways of life and their social reproduction strategies. This concrete experience points to the reflection characteristics of the institutional environment around the agro ecology promotion in the local context, in which case strongly marked by the socio-political environment, the interpersonal relations and the entrepreneurial bias, aspects that will determine the shape and contour of experience agro ecological of APAOrgânico.