A agroecologia necessita de licutixo : contribuições do método camponês a camponês e da produção agroecológica integrada e sustentável à resistência camponesa em assentamentos de reforma agrária, Estância - SE

• Main Author: Leite, Reuel Machado
• Publication Date: 2016
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Download full: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5540
• topic: Geografia; Geografia agrícola; Reforma agrária; Camponeses; Ecologia agrícola; Revolução ecológica; Questão agrária; Agroecologia; Rede camponesa; Estância (SE); Agrarian question; Agroecology; Peasant network; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

After the World War II, with the support of private foundations, such as Rockfeller, a technology package was developed under the name Green Revolution, based on the use of chemical inputs, pesticides, on monoculture, selection of seeds and animals, motorization and mechanization. Due to this model’s severe impacts, movements for an alternative agriculture based on agroecology have emerged. This thesis aims to analyze contributions from the Peasant to Peasant Network (in Portuguese: Rede Camponês a Camponês - RCAC) and from the social technology Integrated and Sustainable Agroecological Production (in Portuguese: Produção Agroecológica Integrada e Sustentável - PAIS) for peasant resistance in land reform settlements in Estância, Sergipe, considering as an analytical framework peasant strategies created for the construction/diffusion of agroecology. The RCAC is founded on knowledge exchanges between peasants, based on the Peasant Mode of Production and on agroecology. On the other hand, the PAIS is a re-applicable social technology that aims the improvement of feeding for poor people in rural areas, as well as the learning of agroecological knowledge. This package has as its scope the social entrepreneurship and combat of poverty. Therefore, we intend to analyze the contradictions in the process of agroecological construction. To this end, we delimited as empirical framework three land reform settlements: Rosa Luxemburgo, 17 de abril and Paulo Freire II. This research has qualitative and quantitative elements. On the first case, we collected data from the National System of Rural Registration to help us to comprehend the agrarian structure in Sergipe and Estância; from the Report of Socioterritorial Impacts (in Portuguese: Relatório de Impactos Socioterritóriais – RIST), applied to the settlements aforementioned; and, at last, we used data from the Agricultural Census, which helped us to understand the pesticides consumption and chemical and organic fertilizer. As for its qualitative dimension, from a perspective of participant observation, we tried to to enter RCAC’s exchange activities, besides the application of semistructured interviews to the network’s peasants. For our analysis of the RCAC and PAIS, we used interpretation of disputes for imaterial territories conceived from the agrarian studies, which are: the Agrarian Question Paradigm (in Portuguese: Paradigma da Questão Agrária – PQA) and Agrarian Capitalism Paradigm (in Portuguese: Paradigma do Capitalismo Agrário – PCA). One of the questions raised in this study is the relation that these two paradigms maintain with the agroecology practiced by the RCAC and the PAIS. Another important element refers to an analysis of expansion of monopolist citriculture capital in Sergipe, essential to understand the resistance process in Estância. This last process is related to the process of peasant territorialization by means of fight for land and in the land. In this thesis, we analyzed contributions from the RCAC and the PAIS for peasant resistance in settlements in Estância, Sergipe. We also approached peasant’s active role in selecting experiences, which allows the Network delimit its own concept of agroecology. We also delimited the concept of agroecology stablished in the RCAC and in the PAIS.