As sementes crioulas como mediação do processo de resistência camponesa diante da ofensiva do capital mundializado

Abstract

The expansion of capitalism in the countryside has provided the development of means and techniques that enable the materialization of the monopoly and oligopolistic interests of capital in agriculture, such as transgeny, for example, which threatens peasant autonomy and food security. However, peasants create strategies that allow their recreation within the capitalist society, like the Community Seed Banks, social technologies that help in the preservation of creole seeds. It is thus understood that the field is a territory of divergent conflicts and territorialities. Based on authors who are dedicated to analyze the peasant recreation, this work aims to carry out an investigation of creole seeds and their role of mediation in the process of peasant resistance, in the context of globalized capital. The Embraced Povoado Tabuleiro, in Água Branca / AL, as the first experience of the peasant organization in the Sertão de Alagoas, in defense of the creole seeds, is taken as an empirical cut.