Banca de DEFESA: ROBERTA CRISTINA DA SILVA
Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.STUDENT : ROBERTA CRISTINA DA SILVA
DATE: 21/06/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/webconf/anelise-dias-2
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KEY WORDS:
Agroecology; Organic Seal; Popular Agrarian Reform
PAGES: 33
BIG AREA: Ciências Agrárias
AREA: Agronomia
SUMMARY:
In the agroecological territories of the popular agrarian reform, social control for direct sales is a mechanism for the inclusion of agrarian reform settlers who directly market their production surpluses. The Santa Helena Sustainable Development Settlement (PDS Santa Helena), located in the municipality of São Carlos, SP, was established and built on an innovative perspective of the agroecological production matrix, in which the social control mechanism for direct sales, OCS Santa Helena, has reached a decade of experiences, struggles, and achievements. However, direct sales can be limiting for the absorption of production on a larger scale arising from the collective initiatives of agrarian reform territories that associate primary production with agro-industrialization. An alternative is the adoption of the Participatory Guarantee System (SPG) as a mechanism linked to the Brazilian System of Organic Conformity Assessment (SISORG). The SPG is based on processes that stimulate the construction of agroecological knowledge, compliance with organic production regulations, and joint responsibility for organic quality. In this context, the objective of this work was to develop mechanisms to facilitate the implementation of the SPG in the territories of the popular agrarian reform, aiming to improve social organization, productive and environmental adequacy, as well as to expand access to marketing channels for organic products from PDS Santa Helena. The study was carried out from November 2023 to February 2025, based on two research strategies: action research and the descriptive case study. The action research was organized in five phases: recognition and validation of the research proposal with the settlers; implementation of the research proposal; systematization and analysis of the results; collective interpretation of the results; and elaboration of instruments to support the creation of the SPG Santa Helena Group. The implementation of the research proposal included semi-structured interviews with the peasants, organic producers, as well as visits and transversal walks on their lots. The socioeconomic profile was characterized, and organizational, productive, environmental, and sanitary aspects of the lots were investigated. Peasants participate in the collective since its foundation, evidencing a trajectory of rootedness in the territory and despite the resistance of these subjects to remain and produce in the settlement, the challenge of aging stands out. This reality points to the urgent need to promote the permanence and protagonism of landless peasant youth. OCS Santa Helena consolidates itself, in practice, as a political and organizational instrument for the massification of agroecology and collective organization in the territory of the Santa Helena Sustainable Development Project. From an organizational point of view, the greatest challenges identified are active collective participation and the scarcity of resources to strengthen productive structures, such as irrigation systems, machinery adapted to family farming, and diversification of agroecosystems. The challenge of carrying out records and maintaining the field notebook persists, considering the low education of part of the farmers. However, a promising perspective is observed in the engagement of the peasant youth. The developed peer visit script is an instrument that strengthens the organic nature and the process of evaluating organic conformity, reinforcing the principles of SPG's social control. Finally, the practical and peasant manual of participatory certification is configured as a concrete and applicable reference, but also a political-pedagogical legacy of the peasant struggle for a dignified and agroecological life in the territories of the popular agrarian reform.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2145575 - ANELISE DIAS
Externo à Instituição - JOELSON GONCALVES DE CARVALHO - UFSCAR
Externa à Instituição - KEILA CÁSSIA SANTOS ARAUJO LOPES - UEMG
Interna - ***.766.397-** - MARIA FERNANDA DE ALBUQUERQUE COSTA FONSECA - PESAGRO-RIO