REFLECTIONS ABOUT AGRICULTURAL QUESTION IN MEXICO AND BRAZIL: A LOOK AT PEASANTRY, AGROECOLOGY AND AGRIBUSINESS

Rabello, Diogenes; Concheiro, Luciano [UNESP]; Thomaz Junior, Antonio

REFLECTIONS ABOUT AGRICULTURAL QUESTION IN MEXICO AND BRAZIL: A LOOK AT PEASANTRY, AGROECOLOGY AND AGRIBUSINESS

Date

2018-05-01

Authors

Rabello, Diogenes

Concheiro, Luciano

Thomaz Junior, Antonio

Publisher

Univ Estadual Paulista Julio Mesquita Filho, Fac Ciencias & Tecnologia

Type

Article

Access right

Acesso restrito

Abstract

Agroecology emphasizes the social dimension of healthy food production in diversity and quantity, giving priority to family work, which encompasses the production process, as well as the cultural dimension, rescuing, recovering and re-adapting traditional work techniques, allowing maintenance of the identity of the subjects of the field involved. These considerations ground our concern to understand the reality of the peasants and indigenous peoples of Mexico, specifically the states of Puebla, Oaxaca and Chiapas, and their experiences of life on Earth through practices similar to agroecology. For this, we propose to analyze these practices through the forms of life and work, as well as their struggles and resistances, and to establish approaches with the peasantry of Pontal do Paranapanema (Sao Paulo, Brazil).