Extensão rural e agroecologia: estudo bibliográfico da extensão rural no estado de São Paulo e no município de Cândido Mota/SP

Abstract

This paper aims to present the development and changes that occurred in rural extension in Brazil, State of São Paulo and in the municipality of Cândido Mota. The work presents a brief history of the development of rural extension, from its emergence in England to its arrival in Brazil after the abolition of slavery. This work demonstrates the foreign influence in the Brazilian rural extension, especially the one developed in the State of São Paulo from the twentieth century. It reports the consequences of the use of the diffusionist extension model in the State of São Paulo and the municipality of Cândido Mota in order to combat the model of peasant and traditional agriculture, with the use of commodification and agro-export agriculture. It presents as a proposal, the use of participatory and modern rural communication models based on the studies of Latin American thinkers especially Paulo Freire, Francisco Roberto Caporal and Juan Díaz Bordenave, Polan Lacki. Finally, it defends the digitalization of rural extension as an alternative to the increase in care, resulting from the facilitated access to the internet in Brazilian rural properties.