Feira da agricultura familiar de serraria-pb e as tecnologias agroecológicas para o fortalecimento e valorização dos agricultores familiares

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Juliana Ferreira de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/16847
• topic: Geração de renda; Agroecologia; Controle social; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS

Activities that seek to strengthen family farming should take place in a participatory manner, allowing farmers to be protagonists of these activities, and an essential part of the constructive and reconstructive processes of more autonomous and diversified rural spaces. Nowadays, the agro-ecological family farmers of the municipality of Serraria have a very important marketing channel, the Family Agriculture Fair, which guarantees direct marketing with the consumer, creating bonds of trust between both, providing more visibility to local agriculture products, besides to provide income and quality of life for both those who produce and those who consume food. The objective of this work is to discuss the importance of continuous training activities to strengthen and empower the farmers of the Association of the Family Agriculture Fair of Serraria-Paraíba (AFAFS) as a strategy for the development and multiplication of agroecological technologies. The Serrarian family farming has gained momentum and increased visibility through the establishment and strengthening of the family agriculture fair, as a Social Control Organism, which promotes the production, consumption and commercialization of organic products with its empowerment in social and agroecological production techniques. The said fair is registered in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply as Organization of Social Control, strengthening agroecology and organic production by these farmers. The methodology adopted is participatory, with participatory dialogues, itinerant meetings, workshops and other continuing education and knowledge activities, based on local knowledge and the appreciation of farmers' knowledge. The activities were carried out in the municipality of Serraria-PB together with the farmers, farmers and young people of the Fair of the Family Agriculture of Serraria, in some activities we also had the participation of farmers of a team of flower cultivation of said municipality. The activities began in May 2017 with actions to rescue some of the crops that were once part of the local agriculture, with the cultures of black pepper, coffee and arrowroot being identified, which resulted in coffee planting (Coffea) and araruta (Maranta arundinacea) and in the production of black pepper (Piper nigrum) seedlings for later planting, and was finalized in August 2018 with the organization and follow-up of an audit to evaluate the Social Control Body of the Fair Trade Association Family Agriculture of Serraria-PB with the Ministry of Agriculture. All the activities developed contributed to the strengthening and autonomy of the AFAFS in a participatory and diversified way, being also a facilitator of new directions for the farmers involved in the whole process from the opportunity of learning doing together with all the farmers and collaborators in the moments of sharing. The itinerant activities on the farms' properties of the FAFS enabled a greater interaction among the participants, both in their productive activities and in their way of managing the properties from their previous knowledge, with strategies that allow union and good life experience among farmers (as) and collaborators.