Análise da transição agroecológica via métodos participativos: o caso de um grupo de famílias do assentamento Três Pinheiros sede, Sananduva, RS

Abstract

In the current context of agriculture has strengthened the production model the decade 1950s, using technologies increased productivity through technological packages, including improved seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, mechanization, credit, etc. taking as a dissiminator of technology is technical assistance personnel, and especially via methods diffusionists. In the 1980s, based on criticism of that type of production, we started to discuss and seek alternatives that take into account practices and more sustainable methods, starting formats of ecological agriculture. The agrarian reform assentamento that could be positive examples of a more sustainable agriculture, by contrast, has adopted the model of modern agriculture, ie the same as it has excluded many farmers in recent years. The Assentamento Três Pinheiros in Sananduva (RS), after the drafting of the Assentamento Development Plan (PDA) in 2010, indicated as alternative, among others, the creation of a group of families for the agroecology transition. The aim of this study was to identify and describe the methods used to accomplish the process of agroecological transition from a group of eight families through participatory methods. Concluding that the more participatory methods have generated awareness and involvement of families, through a process of action and reflection, but require continued support of the technical team, and this in turn must respect the time required for the desired change can occur.