The centrality of agroforestry in the construction of agroecological knowledge in the Mário Lago Settlement

Authors

  • Vitor Moretti Zonetti Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Integração da América Latina (PROLAM-USP)
  • Júlio César Suzuki Universidade de São Paulo- USP, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2025.v28i1.614

Keywords:

Agrarian Question, Agroecological Peasant Pedagogy, Rural Education, Ontology

Abstract

As part of the Barra Sustainable Development Program (PDS), in the municipality of Ribeirão Preto, the Mario Lago Rural Settlement is an agroecological settlement with prominent agroforestry production. In this settlement, the construction of agroecological knowledge began in the years of occupation of the area in the early 2000s, when its settlers promoted discussions that influenced land use policies and, consequently, supported successive pedagogical processes for the realization of its environmental and productive intentions. The Agroforestry Project stands out as a pioneer in the agroforestry systems implementation and in the arrangement of an epistemic community that continues to develop knowledge of this technique. Remarkably, agroforestry has become a central social practice for the discussion about the development of the settlement in question and the formation of the agroecological peasant identity of its members. With the aim of learning and explaining from the daily experiences of these Landless People, semi-structured interviews were taken out with local leaders, in addition to eco-pedagogical visits to farmers' lots who, despite several structural difficulties, persist in cultivating agroforests.

References

AGUIAR, Maria Virgínia; et al. Princípios e Diretrizes da Educação em Agroecologia. Cadernos de Agroecologia, v. 11, n. 1, 2016. Trabalho apresentado no I Seminário Nacional de Educação em Agroecologia, 2013. [Recife, PE].

ALTIERI, Miguel A.; NICHOLLS, Clara I. Agroecology: a brief account of its origins and currents of thought in Latin America. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, v. 41, n. 3-4, p. 231-237, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2017.1287147

BARBOSA, Lia Pinheiro; ROSSET, Peter Michael. Educação do campo e pedagogia camponesa agroecológica na América Latina: Aportes da La Via Campesina e da CLOC. Educação & Sociedade, v. 38, p. 705-724, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1590/ES0101-73302017175593

BORELLI FILHO, Dorival; FERRANTE, Vera Lúcia Silveira Botta. A luta pela terra na região de Ribeirão Preto: o processo de formação e organização do Assentamento Mário Lago. Retratos de Assentamentos, v. 12, n. 1, p. 305-330, 2009. https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2009.v12i1.60

CALDART, Roseli Salete. Pedagogia do Movimento Sem Terra. 1. ed. São Paulo: Expressão Popular, 2004. 448 p.

COORDINADORA EUROPEA VIA CAMPESINA. Agroecología Campesina segun ECVC: la Agroecología del campesinato como forma de vida. Bruxelas: LVC, 2022. p. 19. Disponível em: https://viacampesina.org/en/new-publication-on-peasant-agroecology-according-to-ecvc/. Acesso: 7 set. 2023.

DUVAL, Henrique Carmona; FERRANTE, Vera Lúcia Silveira Botta. Avanços e desafios na implementação de assentamentos PDS em São Paulo: agentes e conjunturas políticas. Retratos de Assentamentos, v. 19, n. 1, p. 69-98, 2016. https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2016.v19i1.199

ENGELS, Friedrich. Dialética da Natureza. Tradução: Nélio Schneider. 1 ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2020. 398 p.

GIRALDO, Omar Felipe. Multitudes agroecológicas. 1 ed. Ucú: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2022. 290 p.

GLIESSMAN, Stephen R. Agroecology: the Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems. 3. ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2015. 364 p.

GLIESSMAN, Steve. Defining Agroecology. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, v. 42, n. 6, p. 599-600, mar. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2018.1432329

GONÇALVES, José Cláudio; SCOPINHO, Rosemeire Aparecida. Reforma Agrária e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: a difícil construção de um assentamento agroecológico em Ribeirão Preto-SP. Retratos de Assentamentos, v. 13, n. 1, p. 239-262, 2010. https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2010.v13i1.72

HOLT-GIMÉNEZ, Eric. Campesino a campesino: voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. 1 ed. Oakland: Food First Books, 2006. 226 p.

ILYENKOV, Evald Vasilyevich. Dialectical Logic: Essays on its History and Theory. Tradução: H. Campbell Creighton. 1 ed. Delhi: Aakar Books, 2008.

ILYENKOV, Evald Vasilyevich. The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx’s Capital. Tradução: Sergei Syrovatkin. 1. ed. Delhi: Aakar Books, 2008.

MCCUNE, Nils; SÁNCHEZ, Marlen. Teaching the territory: Agroecological pedagogy and popular movements. Agriculture and Human Values, v. 36, p. 595-610, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9853-9

McMICHAEL, Philip. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions. 3. ed. Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing, 2021.

MOLINA, Manuel González de; PETERSEN, Paulo; PEÑA, Francisco Garrido; CAPORAL, Francisco Roberto. Introducción a la Agroecología Política. 1. ed. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2021. 261 p.

NETO, Nelson Eduardo Corrêa; MESSERSCHMIDT, Namastê Maranhão; STEENBOCK, Walter; MONNERAT, Priscila Facina. Agroflorestando o mundo de facão a trator. 1 ed. Barra do Turvo: Cooperafloresta, 2016. 177 p.

PATEL, Rajeev. International Agrarian Restructuring and the Practical Ethics of Peasant Movement Solidarity. Journal of Asian and African Studies, v. 41, n. 1-2, p. 71-93, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909606061748

PATEL, Rajeev. Food Sovereignty. The Journal of Peasant Studies, v. 36, n. 3, p. 663-706, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150903143079

PATEL, Rajeev. Food Sovereignty: power, gender and the right to food. Plos Medicine, v. 9, n. 6, p 1-4, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001223

PLOEG, Jan Douwe van der. Camponeses e impérios alimentares: lutas camponesas por autonomia e sustentabilidade na era da globalização. 1. ed. Tradução: Rita Pereira. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS, 2008. 372 p.

ROSSET, Peter Michael; ALTIERI, Miguel Angel. Agroecologia: ciência e política. 1. ed. Tradução: Rafael Tatemoto. São Paulo: Editora UNESP, Expressão Popular, Editora da UFRGS, 2022. 152 p.

ZONETTI, Vitor Moretti. O desenvolvimento do projeto Agroflorestar no Assentamento Mário Lago: dos processos de aprendizagem à transformação da atividade. 2019. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sustentabilidade) – Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2019. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.11606/D.100.2019.tde-24042019-194155. Acesso em: 2 jun. 2023.

WEZEL, Alexander et al. Agroecology as a science, a movement and a practice. A review. Agronomy for sustainable development, v. 29, p. 503-515, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1051/agro/2009004

Published

2025-02-01

How to Cite

Moretti Zonetti, V., & Suzuki, J. C. . (2025). The centrality of agroforestry in the construction of agroecological knowledge in the Mário Lago Settlement. Retratos De Assentamentos, 28(1), 190-208. https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2025.v28i1.614

Issue

Section

Artigos Originais