Mais um número de nosso periódico! E com ele, novas esperanças... Finalmente, a situação política do país parece alvissareira. No horizonte, ambiguidades. Mais do que ambiguidades, ameaças. Tempos ainda ameaçadores. Milhões de brasileiros que sofreram com os descalabros do neoliberalismo (no modelo autoritário) aguardam melhores tempos. Não há clima e nem mesmo pretexto para golpes, dizem alguns analistas. Outros, mais realistas, se preocupam. Mas olhando à nossa volta, parece-nos sentir a...

Created in 2003, the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) has proven to be an important marketing channel for small rural producers and a relevant public policy to promote access to healthy food. Along its trajectory, several normative and institutional changes were carried out in order to improve the program's implementation. Thus, this work aimed to analyze the main benefits and challenges of the PAA for its beneficiary suppliers. The method applied included systematic literature review and...

Through a literature review, documentary and field research, the present work aims to characterize the importance of the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) as a policy to promote Sovereignty and Food and Nutritional Security (SSAN) and carry out a brief analysis of the impact the acquisition of food from PNAE family farming, generating income for local family farmers, within the municipality of Almirante Tamandaré. The emphasis was placed on the acquisition of food from family farming in...

The objective of this research was to verify the main conditions of food supply made possible by public policies, carried out by family farmers to institutional markets in Mato Grosso do Sul. The exploratory and descriptive research used data from bibliographical and documentary sources, associated with interviews that favored dialogue with public organizations, a solidarity economy organization and representatives of family farming, these were interpreted using a qualitative technique. It...

The process of creation of a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) in the state of Alagoas has mobilized a huge diversity of subjects in the territories: peasant farmers, settled families of agrarian reform and land credit, Indigenous people, camped people and small landowners. The actual participation of members of the participatory system is one of the PGS guidelines, which had to be improved through digital technologies to face the present Covid-19 crisis. This study aims to shed light on...

Este trabalho teve como origem pesquisas que buscaram gerar informações a respeito de práticas e conhecimentos referentes à agroecologia no Território Noroeste Paulista (SP). O objetivo deste artigo foi analisar, comparativamente, junto a agricultores assentados da reforma agrária e de uma associação composta também de agricultores familiares, quais as técnicas e valores, provindos de suas tradições, são implementados ou orientam a organização de seus sistemas de produção e que podem ser...

Known as the “hunger branch”, the southwest of São Paulo state is one of the least developed regions in the state and among those showing the highest inequalities between small and large rural producers. This article discusses the socioeconomic and historical aspects of the region, as well as the historical profile of family farmers in the last 70 years. Based on the anthropological approach, interviews were carried out among individuals of nine properties in the Angatuba, Buri, and Campina...

This article aims to analyze the sustainability of federal rural land reform settlements in the Geographic Region of Intermediate Influence of Ilhéus-Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil, highlighting the nuances that affect the reality of these rural environments. Data were analyzed from the Survey on Quality of Life, Production and Income in Agrarian Reform Settlements (PQRA), carried out by the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform - INCRA between 2009-2010, in 65 rural agrarian reform...

O Marketing Verde é uma estratégia para fazer a ligação entre empresas e meio ambiente, seja por meio dos seus produtos, serviços, meios de produção e até mesmo atividades de conscientização da sociedade quanto à preservação ambiental. Este artigo, além de discutir os conhecimentos abordados na teoria, tem como objetivo identificar a percepção do consumidor verde sobre os atributos e benefícios dos produtos hortifrúti orgânicos da empresa Sítio Panorama de Penápolis-SP; e para tanto, foi...

Os esgotos sanitários gerados na zona rural podem causar a poluição do solo e das águas, colocando em risco a saúde das comunidades locais.  Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar e discutir soluções práticas e simples para o esgotamento sanitário de residências e assentamentos rurais. As soluções propostas são sanitária e ambientalmente adequadas, seguindo técnicas e normas apropriadas, e são compatíveis com a realidade socioeconômica dessas comunidades. Podem ser executadas utilizando...

This study is part of one ongoing research, developed on Professional Master in Education at State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), and it tells about the expectations of young people formation in a school located in a rural community in the municipality of Serra do Ramalho / Bahia and who attend high school with technological intermediation. This research aims to question the case of the closure of the High School class in the community and how the closure of rural schools has contributed...

The departure point is connected with the changes that occurred in the rural labor relations in the Northeastern coast in Brazil, and we aim at clarifying the narratives of those peasants settled in the area who trusted in us and revealed their memories, evoking important moments of their trajectories. This has enabled us to analyze the emphatic and contradictory memories concerning the “goodness” of a boss, and compare it to the “wickedness” of another. This comparison enabled us to...

This academic work aimed to analyze which collective memories are present in the testimonies of young university students from the countryside regarding their life experiences in the rural world and their relationship with work, education and admission to the university. Data analysis was carried out with 09 (nine) undergraduate students from rural area and linked to a public Higher Education Institution in Vitória da Conquista-Ba. The development of the study sought theory and empiricism,...

In this paper, we intend to problematize the criminalization of the peasant population involved in the struggle for agrarian reform in Brazil. Through bibliographic review on Brazilian agrarian question and phenomenological analysis of field records collected in the investigative process with farmers in the Sustainable Development Project (PDS) Santa Helena, located in the city of São Carlos/SP, we argue that the individual and collective life experiences engendered by the actions of the...

The article proposes to carry out an assessment of the trajectory of rural settlements in São Paulo, taking into account that it is an expression of the social diversity that permeates the different territorial dynamics, revealing the tense relationship between utopia and public policy, between the projected and the lived. Such experiences are understood, in this article, as linked to the struggles for the conquest and maintenance of land by different marginalized social groups; as well as...