Have you heard about Agroecology?
For some, agroecology can be understood only as a set of sustainable agricultural practices in the field, which instead of using pesticides in monocultures, organic production is carried out in a more biodiverse space. But agroecology goes beyond technique and the organic:
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1) It concerns a production that respects and adapts to the original ecosystem where it operates, using its potential and respecting nature's flowering, fruiting and harvesting time.
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2) Agroecology is committed to recovering popular knowledge about agricultural management, but also about the way our relationship with the land and nature takes place, revealing other possibilities of living in society.
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3) Through it, native plants and native foods from each ecosystem are recovered and valued, which were culturally imported and replaced in the context of colonization and more recent times, by a European and less biodiverse food pattern.
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4) Agroecology is committed to social causes, as this is a more complex and diversified agro-food system, it can generate safe food for the families that produce it and for those who purchase food from that farmer, that is, it promotes safety and food sovereignty.
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5) It is science, but a science that is not detached from the ethical aspect of its process and social context, interacting with traditional knowledge, learning and exchanging with it as a different knowledge system, but no less valid.
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6) By not running away from the social issues with which it relates, it is also a social movement in search of greater social justice in the distribution and use of land, in working conditions in food production and in people's living conditions.
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NEA (Nucleus of Studies in Agroecology and Organic Production) from UFABC is one of the almost 200 NEAs we have throughout Brazil and focused on urban agroecology. The NEA-UFABC is responsible for actions covering the southeast region of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo and its study area includes large urbanized areas."
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(Explanatory text taken from the NEA which we support)
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1) It concerns a production that respects and adapts to the original ecosystem where it operates, using its potential and respecting nature's flowering, fruiting and harvesting time.
.
2) Agroecology is committed to recovering popular knowledge about agricultural management, but also about the way our relationship with the land and nature takes place, revealing other possibilities of living in society.
.
3) Through it, native plants and native foods from each ecosystem are recovered and valued, which were culturally imported and replaced in the context of colonization and more recent times, by a European and less biodiverse food pattern.
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4) Agroecology is committed to social causes, as this is a more complex and diversified agro-food system, it can generate safe food for the families that produce it and for those who purchase food from that farmer, that is, it promotes safety and food sovereignty.
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5) It is science, but a science that is not detached from the ethical aspect of its process and social context, interacting with traditional knowledge, learning and exchanging with it as a different knowledge system, but no less valid.
.
6) By not running away from the social issues with which it relates, it is also a social movement in search of greater social justice in the distribution and use of land, in working conditions in food production and in people's living conditions.
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NEA (Nucleus of Studies in Agroecology and Organic Production) from UFABC is one of the almost 200 NEAs we have throughout Brazil and focused on urban agroecology. The NEA-UFABC is responsible for actions covering the southeast region of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo and its study area includes large urbanized areas."
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(Explanatory text taken from the NEA which we support)