Hortas comunitárias agroecológicas: a experiência da campanha mãos solidárias em Olinda, PE

Abstract

This work is the result of our concerns about the flourishing of popular organization experiences being built through the creation of community gardens on the outskirts of cities. This front of action and action that articulates social movements, institutional partners and local agents has proven to be a powerful technology for social transformation and dissemination of agroecology in different territories, such as the Horta Popular Solidária in Vila Manchete, located in an occupation urban in Olinda, Pernambuco, and coordinated by the Solidarity Hands Campaign - the urban action arm of the Landless Rural Workers Movement. To this end, we aim to investigate the role of solidarity-based popular agroecological gardens in promoting food security, popular organization and strengthening agroecology as a tool for social transformation. The research is essentially qualitative, descriptive and exploratory, whose purpose is to better understand the effects and organizational characteristics of this type of activity in the territory, considering its limits and potential. As a result, we hope to be able to confirm the importance of urban gardens for peripheral communities, showing their efficiency in popular, political, cultural organization and awareness and socialization regarding the topic of agroecology for the urban working class.