Agroecology; Organic seal; MST - Landless Farm-worker Movement
Agroecology is science, practice, policy and movement, it has the productive capacity to guarantee the maintenance, preservation and conservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity, which produces soil, water, air and food sovereignty, with integration and appreciation of people andterritories, as an intrinsic and fundamental part of present and future human coexistence in balance with nature.Family farming and all the diversity of the people that make up Brazilian territories and the agroecological and organic movements, historically resist and oppose conventional agricultural models with the aggressive expansion of monocultures, as well as exclusionary organic certification models.In this context, the objective of this work is to carry out action research aimed at implementing the Participatory Guarantee System as a mechanism to expand the flow of organic products from agrarian reform lots in the Santa Helena Sustainable Development Project, in the municipality ofSão Carlos – SP.The specific objectives will be to carry out a diagnosis (recognition) of the OCS Santa Helena;build a Peer Visit Itinerary and develop a technical and productive protocol for environmental and organic adaptation for agrarian reform properties/lots.The research will be carried out based on the principles of participatory action research based on the processes of a concrete and shared reality.Interviews will be carried out with farmers and technicians, as well as cross-plot walks.It is expected to contribute to the construction of processes and technical references to support agrarian reform settlements in the organic certification process, based mainly on the principles of the Participatory Organic Conformity Assessment System: Peer visits as an instrument to develop and manage thesocial control and environmental, sanitation, productive and organizational adequacy protocols, accessible and efficient for family agroecosystems, emphasizing participatory certification as the key to the construction and massification of agroecology in the territories of popular agrarian reform.