A (des)territorialização da agroecologia no assentamento Celso Furtado, Quedas do Iguaçu - Paraná

Abstract

The present work aimed at analyzing the (de)territorialization process of agroecology at Celso Furtado Settlement, in the municipality of Quedas do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil. The agroecology as alternative system for agricultural production permits the production of healthy food, the farmer’s income generation as well as their permanence in the farms. The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) defends the introduction of agroecology in the land reform areas. Nevertheless, such as verified in this research, a variety of difficulties have undermined the achievement of this productive system. The research had theoretical and empirical purposes, with qualitative data processing. Interviews were conducted with farmers from different communities at Celso Furtado Settlement in order to recognize the history of the agroecology implementation in the settlement period and how it is currently developed. In this sense, throughout the interviews and the visits to the rural unities, we identified some areas of agroecological production in the settlement, although they were different from the ones previously indicated to develop this kind of production. Hence, we identified that the work developed by the MST and other organizations that worked in this idea of environment preservation permitted the territorialization of agroecology in the 10 de Maio and Jose Abilio Settlements. However, for different motivations, such as the lack of technical support and consumer market, after the families had gone to the plots of land and the consequent formation of the Celso Furtado Settlement occurred the process of deterritorialization of agroecology. Currently, agroecology is reduced to small areas if compared to the perspectives in the settlement period. Even so, its presence means resistance to the conventional production models.