Por que continuamos juntos? Reciprocidade, mudança cultural e relações de poder entre o urbano e o rural

Abstract

The present work is about the social relationship established among urban consumers of Fortaleza and rural farmers of Guaraciaba do Norte, in the State of Ceará, Brazil, associated in ADAO – Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Agropecuária Orgânica. That is an experience inspired in the principles of CSA – Community Supported Agriculture, in which consumers assume compromise to get, every week, the vegetables (leaves, fruits and ruts) produced by the farmers who, in turn, have to crop in organic ways, the variety, quantity and quality of food demanded by the consumers. Up from that experience, the confront – real and idealized – when rural (farmers) faces the city (consumers) is studied, in different levels, of values and perspectives, as well as the rule performed by the Agronomic Eng., who places himself as a mediator in the middle of those two worlds, and the conflicts then emerged, in the context of the shock between conventional agriculture (based on the intensive use of chemical artificial products and, more recently, of genetic modified organisms) and the organic agriculture (or, in the case of ADAO, biodynamic agriculture), that reveals alternatives, not only terms in the technologic aspects, but as expression of the ethos of contemporary society, that claims for new ways of relationship between man and nature in the processes of richness generation and its fair and equal appropriation. Then, ADAO is studied as a solidare economic relationship experience, considering that it proposes to eliminate profit interests and antagonist advantages between consumers and farmers, at the same time that defends the organic ways of cropping, chemicals free, and respecting farmers in their dignity.