Initiatives and experiences in agroecology as a strategy for local development in a land reform settlement

This paper searches to understand which disputes and conflicts are around the consolidation of agroecology as one of the alternatives and initiatives of local development in a land reform settlement. Thus, this paper, which consists of one of the results presented in the authorïs dissertation, aims...

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Autor principal: Barcellos, Sérgio Botton
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Historia Argentina y Americana 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.mundoagrario.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/v12n23a06
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/26251
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Sumario:This paper searches to understand which disputes and conflicts are around the consolidation of agroecology as one of the alternatives and initiatives of local development in a land reform settlement. Thus, this paper, which consists of one of the results presented in the authorïs dissertation, aims to identify the disputes and conflicts that occur among local initiatives related to agroecology. Santa Rosa settlement is located in one of the densest areas in relation to rural settlements in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) State. The research sources used to collect data and references to this paper were obtained in: researched bibliography in the writing of the author's dissertation; academic articles; and perceptions from the author's experiences in some land reform settlements. In this research it was considered that initiatives and actions in agroecology in the studied settlement can be strategic to make the social relations potential to the occurrence of experiences in local development different from those that occur alongside agribusiness.