Estratégias territoriais contemporâneas de uma comunidade remanescente de quilombo: análise de um agroecossistema em transição agroecológica - São Pedro de Cima, Divino/MG

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute with agroecology transition process from the remaining community Quilombo São Pedro de Cima, located in the country area of Divino, Minas Gerais, and the strengthen of Núcleo de Estudos em Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica Ewè, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. To do so, in a research-action perspective, they sought to elucidate what are the limitations and potentialities from agroecology transition in São Pedro de Cima from participatory diagnostics. These diagnostics put in evidence central critical points for economical, ecological, social, cultural and productive sustainability which orientate the research investments. Embracing, therefore, over the territorial and productive strategies from a familiar agroecosystem in agroecology transition, pursuing to evidence the synergic connections between traditional knowledge, the agricultural production social organization and subjects involved in the process. It is possible to conclude, therefore, that the local sustainability depends of a solidary and reciprocal relations network between the community members, where the main survival strategy is based at a polyculture orientated for both self-consumption and commercialization. Thus, the local agriculture bear a complex contradiction of being an arrangement between two agricultural and agrarian models orientated by different rationalities.