Agroecologia como viabilidade sustentável na produção agrícola

Abstract

The Green Revolution was a process that has transformed agriculture in the 60's and 70's, when it consolidated a broad and intensive process of agricultural mechanization in order to obtain an initial overproduction of food to alleviate hunger by seeking then present in world. However, this movement can not succeed on this goal, what has been achieved in practice was the growth of a market-oriented agriculture and has focused increasingly in the hands of large agribusinesses and landowners and caused serious social problems such as unemployment and rural exodus. Moreover, another problem arising from the so-called modern or conventional agriculture were the environmental imbalances arising from agricultural practices associated with this process. In an attempt to circumvent such problems is that sustainable agriculture is aimed mainly at resolving the prevailing socio-environmental problems of modern agriculture, agroecology is based on sustainable food production systems in organic farming and family solidarity economy mainly. This work aims to build a framework of family farming in Brazil and in particular examine the main results for family farming and organic products market in the northeast. To this end, we applied became a vast literature on agroecology in Brazil and the Northeast comparing their results with those of conventional agriculture in order to verify the viability of organic food production under a sustainable family farming. Agroecology is a way of farming alternative to conventional agriculture and for the consolidation is necessary to facilitate access for people in general to organic foods.