Agroecologia como alternativa de produção no campo: um estudo de caso no assentamento João Batista II, em Castanhal-PA

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the contribution of agroecology as a form of production and struggle of rural workers living in the territory of the Joao Batista II settlement in Castanhal/PA. To this end, we adopted as a methodological procedure the elaboration of interviews based on a semi-structured script from the perspective of Brumer et. (2008) and informal conversations with farmers. Thus, it was observed that a remarkable characteristic in the interviewees' discourses was that for them agroecology is much more than a productive technique or a science, because it involves a variety of other dimensions, besides the management of a given agroecosystem, which allows us to conclude that the settlers have the agroecological process consciously internalized, understanding that the form of agroecological production enables benefits not only for themselves, but also for the entire social and environmental context in which they are inserted.