Banca de DEFESA: JULIANO LUÍS PALM

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JULIANO LUÍS PALM
DATE: 24/02/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: CPDA/UFRRJ (online)
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Agroecological transition processes: ecology of projects through a pragmatic, systemic and territorial approach based on a study in the Região Serrana of Rio de Janeiro

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Key-words: agroecological transition, territorial agri-food systems, pragmatic sociology, environmentalization, agroecology.

PAGES: 278
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUBÁREA: Sociologia Rural
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Anchored in empirically based research in the Região Serrana of Rio de Janeiro, especially in the municipalities of Nova Friburgo, Teresópolis and Petrópolis, the study seeks to analyze the diversity of agricultural environmentalization projects underway in that territory, examining their developments over time and their contributions to the promotion of agroecological transition processes. In theoretical-methodological terms, the thesis proposes to face the challenges that emerge from the dialogue established between a systemic approach, which seeks to think about the transformation of productive systems from a multidimensional perspective and a pragmatic reading, which focuses on the actors, their contexts, interactions and experiences. Using the notion of territorial agri-food systems, the research presents a longitudinal reading of the configuration that has become predominant in this portion of the agrarian space in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the socio-productive initiatives that sought, at different points in time, to oppose the forms of agricultural organization implemented in the region. The path taken by these experiences in criticizing the so-called conventional agriculture is analyzed considering both individual and family projects, as well as the trajectory of social organizations. Using the idea of an ecology of projects, the investigation sought to understand how the different initiatives for the environmentalization of agriculture unfold in time and space, in the effort to increase their room for maneuver in these territorially situated agroecological transition processes. Mobilizing theoretical approaches developed in the field of geography, that seek to think territories from a relational perspective, the work sought to identify, at the same time, the “restraints” that the dominant forms of organization of agriculture and the agri-food system impose on agroecological transition processes, conditioning the performance of both individuals and organizations. Special attention was also paid to the interactions established between government intervention instruments and the configurations assumed by the territorial agri-food system. It is observed, on the one hand, the presence of public programs and actions that end up reproducing, in their implementation, the modes of organization characteristic of the so-called conventional agriculture, as well as the emergence of government initiatives, often developed in partnership with civil society organizations, seeking to promote agricultural environmentalization processes, understood here as institutional projects. The methodology adopted in the development of this research involved document analysis, semi-structured interviews aimed at reconstituting the trajectories of both individuals and organizations and participant observation. It is possible to observe, in the course of this trajectory, the vitality of the living fabric of relations that constitute these experiences, with an increase in the past few decades in the number of organic producers, a growing insertion of these farmers in different markets, as well as the coexistence between different transition projects and modalities of criticism of conventional agriculture centered, on one side, in the improvement of organic quality and the marketing of products through major retail chains, and on the other, on participatory certification and building an alliance between producers and consumers through direct marketing schemes.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1432841 - CLAUDIA JOB SCHMITT
Interna - 795.464.397-20 - MARIA JOSE TEIXEIRA CARNEIRO - UFRRJ
Externa ao Programa - 1767739 - ANNELISE CAETANO FRAGA FERNANDEZ
Externo à Instituição - CLAIRE LAMINE
Externo à Instituição - MARCELO FIRPO DE SOUZA PORTO - FIOCRUZ
Externo à Instituição - PAULO ANDRÉ NIEDERLE - UFRGS