O MST e a produção de sementes agroecológicas: possibilidades para um processo de reprodução do campesinato em novas bases

Abstract

The transition from agriculture under the feudal system to capitalist agriculture brought a series of consequences to peasantry. Contrary a lot of predictions, we observe that peasants persist and still play an important role within the capitalist system which is characterized by an uneven and contradictory process of development. In this context, the conflict generated by the land dispute and by different social relations and classes carries a strong spatial dimension and brings the territory as a fundamental category in the analyzes to be developed. Acting in the processes of territorial forming and ordering, capital acts in the sense of generating the gradual transformation of values of use into trade values, transforming the land and other natural goods into commodities. Such dynamics has generated, among other negative consequences, the outbreak of an ecological crisis, which clearly manifests itself from the second half of the 20th century, directly affecting the countryside through the domain of the agrochemical model, thus deepening capitalist domination over the peasant fractions of the territory. against all of this, Brazil's landless workers movement (MST) has, over its history, developed tackling and resistance strategies, among which the production of agroecological seeds by BioNatur stands out.