O lugar permacultural e a restauração no ciclo alimentar

Abstract

Abstract. Permaculture started in the 1970s in Australia, based on the way of life integrated with nature of traditional Aboriginal communities. With this method, we seek to create systems that use energy naturally in flux based on the design of sustainable human environments, acting in an integrated manner with nature and its patterns. If it is necessary to act creatively in order to exist and to give meaning to life, the permacultural design was conceived as an alternative to places managed in an ecologically ineffective way. In this essay, we seek to demonstrate the damaging relationships between conventional methods of food production and consumption such as those practiced by the logic of agribusiness, monocultures and transgenic crops. The risks of non-integrated agricultural methods are also observed in extractive reserves. The principles and ethics of Permaculture are presented as creative inputs for the dissemination of solutions and practices of natural relationship with space. This alternative view is proposed here as a permacultural place, which brings together values, such as self-sufficiency, self-governance and emancipation, representing a seed of restoration in food cycles. As an example of a permacultural place, we present the permacultural design and the solutions found at Sítio Floresta, located in the district of Eusébio, Ceará. Thus, we demonstrate that people who experience Permaculture have chosen to put their creativity and freedom into practice in their environments to interact with nature in the culture of life. We understand, then, as a permacultural place, the place that contains a natural logic in the search for a sense of existing and acting in the world and in the space where we live.