A agroecologia e a conquista do território: o caso do Acampamento Dom Tomás Balduíno, Quedas do Iguaçu (PR)

Abstract

The struggle for land is the fight of the landless for their own territory, it is the objective demonstration of Agrarian Reform lack in a landowning country. Agroecology is the landless struggle to develop they territory in a sustainable way, it is the Popular Agrarian Reform necessity of expression on the agribusiness country. The present research aims to analyze the role of agroecology in the struggle for land - territory on Camping Site Tomas Balduíno, Quedas do Iguaçu (PR). It describes the process of constitution / construction of the Camp's territory, pointing out the main strategies of the different subjects (leaders and families camped), in the construction of their own territorialities. For the accomplishment of the research was realized interviews with families' representatives encamped and researched in internal Camp's documents. The actions, potentialities and limits that these subjects are experiencing in the construction's process of the agroecological territory. The research allowed to know a territory where agroecology is being developed and has been shown as a driving force in the confrontation with the hegemonic model of production, by allowing the unstable landless in its existence to build a life's territory.