Agroecologia no Assentamento Lameirão: resistência camponesa no Alto Sertão de Alagoas

Abstract

From the 1960s onwards, ecological changes were implemented in Brazil, the technological packages of the green revolution, not what was called agriculture, through this social change, in the 1970s, environmental awareness emerged, emerging agroecology in the country, constituting as an opposition to capitalist agricultural practices and their negative effects on the countryside. In this sense, agroecology is configured as a new sustainable agricultural model, as well as a political movement, social practice and scientific area. In view of this, the present work aims to analyze the importance of agroecology for production and peasant resistance in the face of the advance of capital in the countryside, considering the context of the Lameirão settlement, in the Alto Sertão de Alagoas. To carry out the research, the historical method of the material was used, providing a comprehensive investigation of the reality of the quantitative-society, thus, a historical-process was developed a casei-quantitative study, through the approach of the historical approach being carried out a bibliographic survey and field data collection, through semi-structured interviews with peasants from the Lameirão Settlement. In this case, it can be understood that a practice with an agroecology aspect, if it can be peasant as a form of agricultural resistance, before the insertion of capitalist agriculture in the territory, direct contracting, can put this fact in the establishment Lameirão, which, when opting for practices traditional peasants, the producers of the researched place oppose how capitalism to establish itself in their territories, being thus, another form of peasant resilience, in the face of centuries of (r)existence, as shown by the historical of the peasant class.