A articulação em agroecologia do Vale do Rio Pardo - AAVRP/RS : a agroecologia como possibilidade de existência e resistência na construção de "espaços de esperança" na região do Vale do Rio Pardo.

Abstract

This doctoral study aims to investigate the foundation process of the countryside and the Brazilian Peasant Family Farming as well as the construction of Agroecology in Brazil, from its origin and historical relations until the current moment. The construction of Agroecology in Rio Grande do Sul was historicized, going through important historical periods in the State and incorporating the Rio Pardo Valley, where tobacco is the main culture, but on the other hand, it holds the organization of Articulation in Agroecology of the Rio Pardo Valley- AAVRP. This organization was founded at the end of 2013 by 10 regional entities that work with Peasant Family Farming and the promotion of Agroecology in the region and now it has 21 entities associated. This study is a participatory research, which reviews influences from the last decades, since its foundation until the present moment of consolidation in the Rio Pardo Valley. Thus, the analysis covers the limits and possibilities of advancement of AAVRP as well as its effective contribution to regional development, considering the agenda of organic food production and the promotion of Agroecology. However, the study is beyond a productivism perspective, which means that the process is understood epistemologically as a way of seeing, reading and interpreting the world. In this context, the AAVRP represents a concrete possibility of resistance in the “Tobacco Valley”, since it has already made important constructions, such as the Regional Agroecology Seminars - SERA, meetings about Creole Seeds, the AAVRP Organic Food Week - SAO 2019, and other related activities. Therefore, AAVRP and its set of entities form what can be called as “Spaces of Hope” (HARVEY, 2015), for producing healthy food and promoting Agroecology.