Transição agroecológica : os casos da Ecovale e da COOPAECIA - RS.

Abstract

This dissertation consists of research on cooperatives ECOVALE - Cooperative Regional Family Farmers and Ecologists COOPAECIA - Farmers Cooperative Ecologists Ipe and Antonio Prado, located respectively in the regions of the Rio Pardo Valley and Mountain range of Rio Grande do Sul. The central research question refers to the process of agroecological transition that members of these cooperatives are experiencing, with the goal of analyzing the strategies of comparative social and economic reproduction, as well as its importance in their respective regions. The comparative method was the methodology used in order to respond qualitatively on the level of transition where both are revealing their heterogeneity. We conclude that the income of the farmers COOPAECIA is significantly higher than that of farmers ECOVALE because of value added to the raw material through the process of agro-industrialization. Therefore, members of Antonio Prado today have their social and economic reproduction guided by Agroecology. Finally, with the evidence provided by this research, we argue that not only ECOVALE backed in "echologized" of their production, but also in their forms of social, political and economic.