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Biblioteca(s): | Epagri-Sede.
Data corrente: | 26/11/2014
Data da última atualização: | 26/11/2014
Autoria: | PINHEIRO, S. L. G.; CARDOSO, A. M.; TURNES, V.; SCHMIDT, W.; BRITO, R.; GUZZATTI, T.
Título: | Agroecologycal systems as a strategy to promote sustainable development for small family farmers
Ano de publicação: | 2002
Fonte/Imprenta: | In: INTERNATIONAL FARMING SYSTEM ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM, 7.., 2002, Florida, USA. Anais... Florida, USA: International Farming System Association IFSA, 2002.
Idioma: | Português
Conteúdo: | This article analyses and summarizes the sustainable development experience based on agroecologycal systems developed by Agreco (a NGO), the Ecological Farmers Association in the Hillsides of Santa Catarina State, in south Brazil. The experience includes not only the organization, management and control of bio-physical systems (called ?production systems? or ?hard-systems?), but also aims to understand and develop interactions which characterize more abstract and complex systems (?soft-systems?), particularly the human relations and the sustainable development of the territory in which Agreco operates. It started with the initiative of people who were born in that territory but, like most Brazilian people, migrated to urban cities.  These ?new urban people? did not loose their interest and connections with the territory neither their relations with their relatives and friends who remained in rural regions. Instead, some of them took advantage of a development opportunity that started with the commercialization of organic products produced in that territory. As a consequence, Agreco was created, involving initially an organized net of several small agro-industries which were constructed with the aim to process and add value to the diverse primary organic production as well as to facilitate commercialization. Other development actions and projects complemented the Association initiative. A rural tourism project was initiated in order to consolidate the relations between rural and urban people and create new revenue perspectives. A credit cooperative was also created as an alternative to the official financial system which small family farmers do not usually have access to. In addition to that, two important Forums were organized: The Solidarity Economy Forum, approximating urban consumers and rural producers, and The Hillsides Development Forum, which involves diverse stakeholders interested in a collective action in order to promote sustainable development in the region. In that territory more than 200 families are now associated with Agreco and interact with several other families (from urban and rural regions) with the aim to construct a sustainable life project
Palavras-Chave: | Agreco; Agroecologycal systems; family farmers; sustainable development.
Categoria do assunto: | P Recursos Naturais, Ciências Ambientais e da Terra
URL: | http://intranetdoc.epagri.sc.gov.br/producao_tecnico_cientifica/DOC_35243.pdf
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