Caracterização e mapeamento de agricultores em alto nível de transição agroecológica no Território dos Vales do Curu e Aracatiaçu por meio do Sistema Agroecológico de Conhecimento Integrado (SACI).

Abstract

Currently, the model of agriculture is based on the paradigms arising from the "green revolution" and from the globalization process of production systems, using the pretext of population growth and food demand to concentrate production in the hands of a few national and international companies, excluding the participation of small farmers in this scenario. In addition, there is a strong dependence on external inputs to agroecosystems. This model also depends on the constant use of imported technological packages, ranging from large mechanized monocultures to transgenic ones. These, in turn, represent the most perverse expression of the modernization of agriculture. Little by little, large corporations are damaging the food sovereignty of families, aiming only at their interests, which weakens family farming and the sustainable management of the agro-ecosystem of the small farmers. In view of this, the present work aims to diffuse and fortify agroecology. To characterize and classify farmers at a high level of agroecological transition, based on diversity, nutrients, insects and diseases, seeds, garbage, labor, decision making, processing, cultivation and commercialization, that is the, "Agroecological Web". In addition, provide a map of information on the location of the family agro-ecosystem and its peculiarities, so that NGOs, cooperatives, social movement groups, students and researchers can contact them to learn more about agroecology, make agro-ecological caravans, experiments, exchange seeds, study and carry out scientific research with them. Data from Sistema Agroecológico de Conhecimento Integrado were used to characterize, select and map families. From this work it was possible to perceive the importance of knowing the process of agroecological transition, as well as the value of using participatory methodology tools such as the agroecological web to diagnose the transition process of family farmers, communities, municipality and territory.