Agroecologia, tecnologia social e agroindustrialização: as camponesas do Assentamento Florestan Fernandes (ES)

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to describe and analyze the experience of the agroecological agro-industry of the self-organized group of women entitled The Peasants of the Florestan Fernandes Settlement of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), in the state of Espírito Santo, discussing whether there is the possibility of a agroindustrialization against hegemony. Faced with the globalization of capital and the various forms of exploitation imposed worldwide, the peasant movements face the great challenge of developing strategies that break the corporatism of the current conjuncture, gaining support from society and allowing the social reproduction of the peasantry. So, would agroindustrialization be possible without a capitalist bias? How different would these forms of production be? For this purpose, Agroecology is used as a theoretical framework, from the perspective of the Critical Theory of Technology and Social Technology, not excluding a gender approach since the productive group is mostly composed of women rural workers. Throughout the research, it was possible to conclude that the agroecological agro-industry represents the construction of new forms of social and productive relations from the moment that it proposes a healthier food base, being able to directly influence the construction new forms of consumption that allow a more harmonious relationship with culture, with the environment, with the economy and between people.