Paulo Petersen

AS-PTA - Agricultura Familiar e Agroecologia · Coordination

Brazil is one of the few countries that has implemented policies aimed at supporting agroecological transition processes on a national scale. While its experience has caught the attention of the international community interested in building sustainable and healthy food systems, recent literature points to the dismantling of these policies. This ar...

O Brasil é um dos poucos países que implementou, em escala nacional, políticas públicas especificamente voltadas a apoiar processos de transição agroecológica. Atualmente, ao mesmo tempo em que sua experiência tem chamado a atenção da comunidade internacional interessada na construção de sistemas alimentares sustentáveis e saudáveis, a literatura a...

L'agroécologie fait l’objet d’un intérêt grandissant comme moyen de progresser vers une agriculture et des systèmes alimentaires plus durables. Cependant, les preuves de la contribution de l'agroécologie à la durabilité restent fragmentées en raison de méthodes et de données hétérogènes, d'échelles différentes et de lacunes dans la recherche. Pour...

There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous methods and data, differing scales and timeframes, and knowledge gaps. Facing these challenges, 70 representatives of ag...

Resumo Este artigo analisa a construção de políticas públicas para a agroecologia no Brasil focalizando: (a) o contexto econômico, político e institucional e os processos de organização social que possibilitaram a emergência dessa agenda pública; (b) a constituição de redes de promoção da agroecologia e sua capacidade de influenciar a ação pública;...

This article analyzes the construction of public policies for agroecology in Brazil focusing on: (a) the economic, political and institutional context and the processes of social organization that enabled the emergence of this public agenda; (b) the creation of networks to promote agroecology with capacity to influence public action; (c) the incorp...

Resumen: El artículo examina el aporte de la teoría de la reciprocidad para analizar los esfuerzos realizados en Brasil en materia de comercio justo economía solidaria y de certificación social de la calidad de los productos agro-alimentares. Examina la hipótesis explicativa de una interacción entre principios de intercambio mercantil y principios...

The article deals with the social construction of markets by family farmers in the Northeast and Center- West of Brazil, based on an analysis of the articulation and complementarity between collective action modalities and reciprocity relationships. In terms of method, logics and marketing strategies have been observed among a sample of families in...

Si Brasil es reconocidamente uno de los países donde la institucionalización de políticas en favor de la agroecología más avanzó, también es uno de los que más sufrió con los ataques de las nuevas estrategias agroindustriales de “acumulación por expoliación” (Harvey, 2012; Almeida, 2010). Con el intento de aclarar ese escenario paradójico y ambiguo...

Resumen: El trabajo presenta los resultados de un análisis de la construcción social de los mercados por los agricultores familiares de Brasil del Agreste de la Paraíba (Nordeste) y de los asentamientos de reforma de Mambai-Goiás (Centro-oeste). Las estrategias y lógicas de comercialización fueron observadas junto a una muestra de familias inserida...

Assim como nos demais países latinoamericanos que compuseram a pesquisa que resultou neste livro, no Brasil a agroecologia conquistou importante espaço nas narrativas dos movimentos sociais rurais, assim como no mundo acadêmico. A noção se tornou uma espécie de plataforma comum para crítica e construção de alternativas aos modelos de agricultura co...

The institutional recognition obtained by family farming in Brazil over recent decades has translated into the launching of a broad and diverse set of public policies specifically aimed towards this sociopolitical category. However, the design of these policies was heavily influenced by the productivist bias derived from the agricultural modernizat...

Marketing logics and strategies of family farming in the Agreste of Paraíba http://r1.ufrrj.br/esa/V2/ojs/index.php/esa/article/view/775 Marlene Pra, Eric Sabourin, Paulo Petersen e Luciano Silveira Abstract: (Marketing logic and strategies of family farming in the Agreste of Paraíba). The article presents the results of an analysis of the social...

Fighting the drought. Based on this idea, for almost two centuries now the Brazilian State has elaborated policies and programmes intended to stimulate rural development in the semiarid region of the country. It is this idea which has nourished the illusion that immense infrastructures need to be built to capture, store and transport large volumes...

This article sketches a brief panorama of the advances and challenges involved in the implementation of the agroecological approach in Brazilian institutions. It begins with an account of the struggles of rural social movements working at the deepest grassroots level of the country's “agroecological field.” The processes that led to the creation an...

The realization of the contribution of peasant agriculture to food security in the midst of scenarios of climate change, economic and energy crisis, led to the concepts of food sovereignty and agroecologically based production systems to gain much attention in the developing world in the last two decades. New approaches and technologies involving a...

For 25 years, the work of ILEIA and its AgriCultures Network partners has been shaped by the idea that millions of small-scale farmers and their supporters in society experiment and innovate during their daily work. In the local ecological setting farmers increase their technical and economic autonomy, raise productivity and incomes. The main objec...

It is currently estimated that 40 million hectares worldwide are cultivated through no-tillage systems (Derpsh, 1998). Small family farms account for less than 50,000 ha, half of them located in South America's Southern Cone (Wall, 1998). Many hypotheses have been offered to explain why so few small farmers have adapted to this method. The most sim...

Este trabajo muestra la doble cara del desarrollo rural que se ha producido en Brasil en los últimos 15 años. Si bien es cierto que aún persiste y es dominante la agricultura agroquímica de vocación exportadora, lo cual se vincula a su enorme capacidad de incidir en la configuración de las políticas públicas por parte tanto del Estado central como...

Resumo -A agricultura tem sido considerada uma das principais causas e, ao mesmo tempo, uma das principais vítimas dos problemas ambientais da atualidade. Essa relação mutuamente negativa não é resultado de uma evolução histórica automática e incontornável, deriva de um determinado enfoque técnico-científico que, no século 20, fomentou a transplant...