Análise econômica-ecológica da Resistência Camponesa na Chapada do Apodi - Ceará

Abstract

The Brazilian territory is known worldwide for having arable land intended for the cultivation of the most diverse types of crops and, consequently, for using different soil management methods, responsible for classifying Brazil as one of the main fruit exporters internationally. Thus, policies that aim to increase productivity, combined with technological advancement, emerge with the developmental discourse in spaces previously considered underdeveloped, as is the case of the National Irrigation Policy, which created Irrigated Public Perimeters in rural areas in the country with the aim of mass production of fruit for export. However, in Chapada do Apodi, in the interior of the State of Ceará, more precisely in Limoeiro do Norte, Quixeré and Tabuleiro do Norte, the Public Irrigated Perimeter Jaguaribe - Apodi / PIJA was installed in the 1990s, responsible for receiving numerous companies agricultural producers of commodities destined for the international market. In the meantime, this doctoral research, supported by the epistemologies of Ecological Economy and Agroecology, seeks to answer how the peasant production process occurs in the face of the hegemonic model of monoculture production in the Chapada do Apodi - CE region, through 03 scientific articles. Each scientific article has its own objective and theoretical-methodological path, which are used to prove this thesis. That said, in article 01 (chapter 04), the present study had as its central objective to analyze the peasant productive project entitled “Community that Sustains Agriculture - CSA: my backyard in your basket”, installed in Tabuleiro do Norte - CE, a territory that It recently received an enterprise that uses land and water mainly for cotton production. The methodological path chosen was field research, bibliographic and documentary analysis. The results found demonstrate that in 03 years of operation, CSA: my backyard in your basket produced up to 75 different types of products ranging from culture to processed foods, representing a peasant project of resistance inspired by food and nutritional sovereignty, in aterritory of conflicts and lack of resources for small rural producers. Articles 02 and 03 (chapters 05 and 06) are in the preparation phase and will be presented at the end of this research.