Campesinato e mercado: a produção e a comercialização de cestas agroecológicas no acampamento Recanto da Natureza, Laranjeiras do Sul – Paraná

Abstract

In This academic conclusion work was analyzed the relation among the peasantry with the market by the production and commercialization of agroecological baskets at Recanto da Natureza Settlement, in Laranjeiras do Sul – Paraná. The relevance of this work is in fact that it allowed to give visiability to the importance of land reform and the production of organic food, of real importance to the society. In this way, we highlighted the day by day elements of the community, as the work, the organization and the cooperation to the income generation and autonomy by the agroecology. Inittialy, we historically situated the forming process of Recanto da Natureza Settlement, Laranjeiras do Sul – Paraná. Afterward, we approached the concepts of agorecology, income generation and land reform and, finally, we found out the contribution of agroecological baskets in work and income generation at Recanto da Natureza Settlement. The current search work was developed by bibliographic studies and field search interviewing five peasants. The search is from mixed, qualitative and quantitative nature, by interrelating numerical data with the quantitative analysis. The theoretical reference is grounded in Oliveira’s (2001), Octaviano’s (2010 and Ploeg’s (2016 and 2009) studies in relation to the comprehension of the way of production, from concept and historical of peasantry and the historical construction of agriculture in Brasil and the search in studies of Gerhardt (2009) and Lakatos (2003). The historical comprehension of Movement of Lendless Rural Workers (MST) is sinthesyzed by the studies of Morrisawa (2001). The knowledge of research object is empirically supported in interviews, in the field work and on Recanto da Natureza Settlement’s (2003) site and at Zeneratti et al. (2017). In relation to the comprehension of concept and historic of agroecology, the basement came about the search of Altieri (2004), Caporal (2004) and Guhur and Toná (2012). The search allowed highlight significant results regarding to the production of agroecological food, the commercialization of products in work generation and to the income enlargement at Recanto da Natureza Settlement, Laranjeiras do Sul – Paraná, this way significantly contributing in peasants’ lifes who live there.