A territorially situated reading of agroecological transition processes: ecology of projects in the Sierra Fluminense Region

• Autor(a) principal: Palm, Juliano Luís
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Schmitt, Claudia Job, Lamine, Claire
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/16892
• topic: Transições para a sustentabilidade; Sistemas agri-alimentares territoriais; Rio de Janeiro; Território; Ecologia de projetos; Transiciones a la sostenibilidad; Sistemas agri-alimentarios territoriales; Rio de Janeiro; Territorio; Ecología de proyectos

This article seeks to analyze, from a diachronic perspective, a diversified set of initiatives of environmentalization/ecologization in agriculture and the agri-food system, contextualized in the Serrana Region of Rio de Janeiro, particularly in the municipalities of Petrópolis, Teresópolis and Nova Friburgo. The reflections here presented seek to dialogue with an emerging field of studies, of an interdisciplinary nature, which takes as its object of investigation the processes of transition to sustainability. The research seeks to integrate a systemic approach to the study of practices and experiences of social actors, also incorporating contributions from Brazilian critical geography and French sociology. The work was based on a diverse set of methodologies including document analysis, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation. The results achieved highlight the effects generated by a diversified set of territorial restrictions, which impose limits to the incorporation of sustainability principles into the agri-food system at the territorial level. At the same time, they draw attention to the capacity for agency demonstrated by social actors in the construction of collective and individual projects, enabling the emergence, over time, of a shared field of relations, interpretative frameworks, and controversies, described in this research as an ecology of projects.