Agroecossistemas cearenses: inovação social e desafios técnicos/políticos da agroecologia

Abstract

There are many difficulties and deficiencies in conventional methods of agroecological agroecosystem analysis. Allied to the current paradigm that governs the theoretical frameworks of Rural Extension that highlights the complexity of agri-food systems with the lack of methodological instruments that seek to shed light on these processes, it is necessary to study new participatory methodologies that place social actors, variables and peculiar characteristics of these systems in evidence. This research, which took place in the context of social isolation due to the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (covid-19) and was limited to the analysis of secondary data, systematizes and analyzes three agroecosystems from Ceará that are part of studies conducted by the civil society organization Center for Labor Studies and Worker And Worker Advisory (CETRA), which is part of the Northeast ATER Network of Agroecology , which currently develops a detailed and systematic study in different northeastern agroecosystems, correlating them with public policies, institutional arrangements and processes of productive transformation. The LUME Economic-Ecological Evaluation of Agroecosystems method was used for the analysis of agroecosystems, a method of collective production of knowledge through the survey and processing of information and data that allow the economic-ecological analysis of agroecosystems in order to give visibility to economic, ecological and political relations that singularize the modes of production and life of family agriculture. It was concluded that the LUME brings to light the specificities and peculiarities of agroecological agri-food systems in Ceará that are invisible by the conventional economy, in order to contribute to the promotion of strategies for sustainable rural development in Ceará.