This study aims to describe and interpret the process of implementing the Quota Policy for the children of PRONAF beneficiaries, agrarian reform settlers, and rural wage workers in Higher Education at the Campus Sousa of the Instituto Federal da Paraíba, considering the period from 2012 to 2022. To this end, a case study was conducted, grounded in a historical–organizational perspective and based on semi-structured interviews, with the purpose of understanding the experience of the IFPB from the perspective of quota students, considering the dimensions of access, retention, academic success, and empowerment in relation to the quota policy for rural students. The research findings indicate that the adoption of this affirmative action represented a significant advance in the democratization of access to higher education for a group historically excluded from the academic environment. However, there remains a set of mechanisms yet to be developed to ensure both the physical and symbolic sense of belonging of these quota students within the institution. At the conclusion of the study, Technical Products were developed, including the creation of a Peasantry Center within the institution, aimed at strengthening collectivity, senses of belonging, and rural identities, as well as a Draft Resolution designed to effectively establish guidelines and norms for improving the effectiveness of this necessary affirmative action policy focused on facilitating the entry of rural populations into undergraduate programs within the scope of the IFPB, serving as a model for other Federal Institutions nationwide

The humid high-altitude are region sub-units that occur in the Brazilian semi-arid region and present themselves as “islands of humidity” in the Caatingas domain. The factors that make these areas possible are: exposure to wet advective trade winds and altitude. The swamp landscapes are being converted into agricultural areas, causing degradation and loss of local biodiversity. In this context, Agroecology, based on its principles, can favor processes of agroecological transition to ecologically based agriculture, in the search for sustainable use of natural resources and conservation of landscapes. Thus, the objective of the investigation is to analyze on the agroecological transition processes in the municipality of Brejo da Madre de Deus, located in the Agreste Central of Pernambuco. The “locus” of the research will be the exposition marsh of this municipality. This area encompasses about 7% of this territory, representing 50 km², and is located in an Environmental Protection Area - APA called Serras e Brejos do Capibaribe, where small properties predominate in which farming families carry out their agricultural activities. The investigation will take place through research using participatory methodology, called Peasant to Peasant, very widespread in Latin America especially in Cuba, where it acquired a dimension of movement. As expected results, there will be the scientific production of a thesis and at least one article on the main theme of this project; to enable family farmers to carry out a horizontal ATER process, based on the exchange of agroecological knowledge; in addition to the construction of an application for mobile devices with information about the entire process used in the use of the CaC methodology.

The Green revolution has driven major changes across the planet. In Latin America, and Brazil was not left out, this change was quite strong in the peoples of the countryside. For a long time, the life form of the peasant it was based on family production units, but that the paradigm of the Green Revolution transformed into an individualists modes, supported by reductionist and exclusionary methods. Thus, it is necessary and urgent to resume the knowledge and values of the ancestors, values that are the basis for Agroecology. In the semi-arid region of Brazil, several experiences are being developed with the aim of overcoming exclusionary paradigms; an example of this is agroecological practices around productive mandalas. From the family production units around productive mandalas, this study is based on the hypothesis that the current systemic and agroecological paradigm, which are found in some capesine territories of the country region in northeastern Brazil, it is the link of reunion between the peasant life forms and the sciences, and after the displacement of the discourse to combat drought carried out by the coexistence with the Brazilian Semiarid and produce new narratives and incorporation of other sizes to agriculture. Its main objective is to identify, from a decolonial systemic comparative study, the practices and dimensions adopted by the family production units around the productive mandalas. The research will make a brief journey on the decolonial studies, talking with other theories, such as the Ecosystem Discursive Analysis, dialoguing with the Amazonian Andean systemic knowledge and the history of the Settlements of the Agrarian Reform and the locality. The relevance of the project lies in strengthening the identities, the territoriality of cam-pesinate, presenting a north for the understanding of productive mandalas while decolonial systemic knowledge; dissemination of procutive mandalas as peasant practices. Thus, it will be in latin american decolonial research and in the holistic/systemic view that this study will seek to analyze the influences and contribution of external conjuncture and the internal context in the development of productive mandalas, the analysis of the process of acquisition of the dimensions of agroecology, the valorization of ancestral systemic value and the process of transfer of knowledge collective, This research will start from the productive mandalas developed by family production unitslocated in the Sertão do Semiáriddo, in two Settlements of the Agrarian Reform in Pernambuco (Cachoeira dos Guilhermes and Caldeirões). The in-formations collected will take place between 2022 and September 2023. The study will make use of several sources, in the form of triangulation of methods in an interdisciplinary way.

The qualitative nature of the study with a descriptive character stands out, complemented by bibliographical research, in addition to field observations, with the general objective of analyzing the current normative instruments, which were produced between the years 2016 and 2025 contained in the Brazilian federal legislation and whether there was a legislative omission regarding the issue that deals with Agroecology and its Agroecosystems, but also Agrifood Systems. In addition to the Thesis presented here, which was systematized and divided into four parts containing the introduction plus seven scientific articles distributed in three chapters, there is also the Technical Product resulting from the research, or rather, the final products, which are actually four, namely: a registered trademark called Doutor Sustentabilidade; in addition to a physical book, plus an e-book and an audiobook, as regards the results obtained, they demonstrated with all evidence that there is a legislative gap in relation to the research object studied here; therefore, only four normative instruments were found that deal with Agroecology and its repercussions in relation to the 2030 Agenda. Regarding the results obtained in the research, they demonstrated, in line with the problem presented in the initial question, that there is a lack of legal-normative instruments regarding the issue of agroecological transition in Brazil, which has the potential to greatly hinder the implementation of the agroecological transition plan proposed for agroecosystems and agri-food systems in Brazil

Living with the Semi-Arid is a paradigm under construction, which also presents itself as a sociopolitical project widely studied by the social, agrarian, environmental, and economic sciences. It requires a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the semi-arid region and its people, as well as to the relationships established with the State, the Northeastern oligarchy, and the symbolic imagination that perpetuates stereotypes about this territory through time. As part of a more sustainable development paradigm, it can be understood as a counter-hegemonic process led by the Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA) through the implementation of water infrastructures of ideological, technological, and social appropriation nature.

In this thesis, we examine the P1+2 Program, which remains incipient in Southwestern Bahia compared to the pioneering program of the coexistence policy, P1MC. The research aimed to investigate how the social technologies of P1+2 have been appropriated by farming families and their functionality within family production units. To this end, the methodological procedures included the Characterization of Family Production Units—a tool used by social organizations to map, diagnose, analyze, and intervene contextually in the socio-productive space of families—along with bibliographical and documentary research, semi-structured interviews, systematic and participant observations, photographic records, and mapping activities.

The results showed that the social technologies of P1+2, once properly appropriated by families, enabled partial autonomy in food production and consumption, with minimal market dependence for inputs, and full autonomy from the market regarding what and how to produce—during periods without relative drought. We observed market exchanges of surpluses for monetary income supplementation, as well as reciprocal exchanges represented in the flow of donations among families.

The analysis of the Characterizations revealed deep-rooted gender inequalities, indicating that there is still a long way to go to achieve gender equity in the division of labor in rural areas—whether domestic or agricultural—as well as broader appropriation of the “calçadão” and “enxurrada” cisterns by women. However, the technical product presented in this thesis stems from the need to overcome the underutilization of the productive potential of cisterns, due to the non-use of water for production in economic garden beds, which directly impacts the reduction of family food diversity.

Native stingless bees or meliponines represent an important portion of Brazil's biodiversity. Such insects constitute an element of indispensable ecological importance in preserving the floral diversity of multiple Brazilian ecosystems. This category of insects, genuinely adapted to Brazilian biomes, consists of approximately 300 species of melipones classified into different genera. They produce honey with many peculiarities to be discovered. In addition to having features such as adaptations to prevent the deterioration of your food containers. Due to this mechanism, the various species of native bees have potential relationships with several already identified microorganisms. In this work, samples of Trigona spinipes honey collected in the Território do Sertão do São Francisco-PE were analyzed. The findings included six filamentous fungi, seven yeasts and fourteen bacteria. All analyzes were performed in triplicate and micro and macroscopic observation techniques and Gram staining were performed. The genus Bacillus was most frequent in bacteriological findings. For specific identification of each isolate, analyzes were carried out using molecular biology. The results obtained provide precedents for more detailed analyzes of the composition of microorganisms associated with Trigona spinipes and other species of stingless bees from the Caatinga, as the various species of native bees have potential relationships with several already identified microorganisms. These may be bioremediation relationships, use as bioinsecticides due to their entomopathogenic action, in bioprospecting and even as bioinputs that can assist agroecological practice. Preserving Arapuá certainly means providing sustainability for the various ecosystems, as it is a species that repairs degraded biomes

This thesis work analyzes the construction process of the municipal public policy of agroecology in the municipality of Bonito-PE, from the strategies of agroecological transition, the collective action and the incidence of the social actors and public entities that contributed for the strengthening of the territorial identity of Agroecology and the advancement of agroecological knowledge in the territory. The study had an interdisciplinary approach, whose approach was qualitative with quantitative complements, based on the methodology of the Pedagogy of Support to Sustainable Development (PEADS). The municipality of Bonito, located in the Agreste region, in the interior of the State of Pernambuco, is one of the experiences that we can mention in the state context, which has been accumulating significant results, especially in the last seven years (2015 – 2022) in terms of agroecological transition. The results indicate that the construction of agroecological knowledge resulted from a collective action in the territorialization of Agroecology driven by farmers, civil society organizations, legislative power, public management and teaching, research and extension institutions, which collaborated in the outlining of important strategies to strengthen the agroecological transition over the years, which materialized in the construction of the Policy and the Municipal Plan of Agroecology and Organic Production in the municipality. We understand that this initiative transcends the political-administrative sphere of municipal public management, it announces the construction of a socio-political project in which collective action was the starting point, based on a greater, common, shared purpose, making marginal demands of society were heard and prioritized in public policies, simultaneously satisfying society's aspirations, simultaneously advancing in the consolidation of preservation and conservation of the environment.

The Brazilian semi-arid region is historically considered a lifeless place from the point of view of combating drought. In the 1980s, based on the struggle of social movements, a new paradigm was created: Living with the semi-arid region. The approach of Living with the Semiarid Region necessarily refers to multidimensionality and Popular Health, Education and Agroecology are three fields of knowledge that are of primary interest to us in this case. It is in this context that this case study is inserted, which aims to analyze the processes of training/action in Promotion and Surveillance in Health, Environment and Work (PVSAT) carried out in the states of Ceará and Pernambuco, within the scope of the Healthy Territories Project and sustainable in in the Semi-arid region, revealing the contributions of agroecology and Popular Health to the strengthening of the paradigm of Coexistence with the semi-arid region in the construction of Healthy and Sustainable Territories in the Semi-arid region. The study is of a qualitative nature and is characterized by a case study, using participant observation techniques and semi-structured interviews and using Bardin's content analysis as an analysis technique. Its results are expressed in the form of a thesis and technical product. The technical product developed was a software of sociotechnical networks formed from training-action processes and the thesis presents elements of the educational processes that brought closer the interlocution between health and agroecology in the perspective of good living.

The challenge of providing populations living in rural areas of the Semiarid Region with the prerogatives necessary for them to be the central protagonists in the construction of their history and way of life has stimulated studies on the strategic articulation between contextualized training of teachers and sustainable development. The teaching performance has a multidimensional character and expressive potential for transversality, being able to integrate the institutional attributions of the school-space to the redefinition of practices and knowledge, such as the agroecological field. Therefore, this research sought to understand the extent to which the principles of Education in Agroecology underlie the Continuing Education course in Contextualized Education for Living with the Semiarid, developed in Afogados da Ingazeira, in partnership with the JoaquimNabuco Foundation. The methodological design was structured based on a qualitative approach, considering the research procedures organized in document analysis, bibliographical research and field research, with the application of a structured questionnaire and participation in agroecology events. It was based on the assumption that Education in Agroecology and Contextualized Education for Coexistence with the Semi-arid Region, having in common the political-pedagogical principle of interaction between the knowledge of peasant work and scientific knowledge, in a process of teacher training, would establish dialogue with significant production of analyses. It was noticed that the Principles of Education in Agroecology are linked to the theoretical-methodological axis and to the political-pegogical principles of the Continuing Education course in Contextualized Education for Living with the Semiarid Region. Considering all the convergences and relationships, in addition to this thesis, the construction and publication as a Municipal Law, within a democratic and participatory process, of the Municipal Education Policy Contextualized for Coexistence with the Semiarid and Agroecology, in Afogados da Ingazeira, presents itself as final product of the research work, being a concrete intervention to the questions listed by the research.

The Boleiras de Normandia are rural women who live in the Normandia settlement in Caruaru, Pernambuco. They have stories of life and struggle that are constantly repeated in other territories. The political and ideological confrontations inherent in the process of winning rights give new meaning to their collective identity and the relationships they establish with the territory. The study analysed how the women's group "Boleiras de Normandia", through agroecological practices, the valuing of local knowledge and the search for food sovereignty, has achieved autonomy from the perspective of feminist economics and solidarity economics. The diversified strategies are helping the group to improve their quality of life and achieve greater emancipation, giving new meaning to productive and reproductive labour practices. The methodology used was qualitative with quantitative complements from an action research perspective, with the use of agroecological notebooks as the central tool. It also sought to encourage women's participation in action-reflection-action on their own condition, in order to strengthen agroecological practices and territorial identity. The final product of the study was a "Guide to the Production and Marketing of Agroecological Products by Rural Women" and the link to the promotion of autonomy and food and nutritional sovereignty for their families, as well as the creation of references for other rural women, based on this example, can understand the stages of the process from a practical reality experienced in the settlement. This research shows that women play a leading role in the processing and commercialisation of their products at agroecological fairs and in the qualification of production, taking on an important role in the production process, as well as contributing effectively to building ways of overcoming situations of gender and socioeconomic inequality.

The Alternative Food Network (RAA) transcends the Industrial Agro-Food System and consolidates itself in the collaborative relationship, which permeates the context of production and consumption of healthy foods, with the countryside and the city. It highlights the socio-productive inclusion in the promotion of Territorial Agro-Food Systems (SAT) with emphasis on ecological practices, social technologies and Short Circuits (CC). This converges with the promotion of healthy eating with Sovereignty and Food and Nutrition Security (SSAN), at the intersection of people and institutions, which weave the production chain in the context of Social Management. The Interinstitutional Agroecological Fair (FIA) since 2019 weaves this intersection in the rural territories of the State of Goiás. And in the city of Goiânia, it was carried out at the Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG), the Federal Institute of Goiás (IF Goiano) and the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). In 2020 and 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was adapted to the virtual format, with the process that deals with this transition being the focus of the research on screen. From this perspective, the general objective of the research was to describe and analyze the operation of the Virtual Inter-Institutional Agroecological Fair (FIAV) in the context of food production and supply. As the methodology chosen, the existential/integral action research, carried out in 2021 and 2022 with FIAV family farmers. Research and technical and technological products were developed horizontally and dialogically in the light of popular and scientific know-how, transcending the economic-mercantile dimension and in convergence with agroecology. FIAV is an RAA, so its operation promoted healthy eating with SSAN. Among the challenges encountered, there is that of family farmers (re)existing the socio-environmental impacts of the Industrial Agro-Food System and having access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in order to comply with the inter-institutional specificities of the FIAVs

The Atlantic Forest has a high diversity of flora, forming a complex system with a high degree of endemism. Being considered one of the 25 hot spots for biodiversity conservation. In this environment, plants that can be used for food draw attention. The objective was to investigate the factors that lead some people not to use certain plants in their food, despite going through possible food deprivation and having knowledge of the nutritional potential of certain vegetables. In addition to encouraging the use of Non-Conventional Food Plants (PANC) and strengthening the sovereignty and food security of peasant families. This thesis was developed at a regional level, which included three municipalities in southern Bahia in an agroforestry system known as “cabruca”. To obtain the data, the methodology of research-action was used, with empirical observations, theoretical investigations, gastronomic workshops, based on a qualitative and quantitative approach, taking into account the quantity and variety of non-conventional plants, which the /participants indicated knowing and using with potential for food use and discussing the acceptance of PANC in local food. Didactic material capable of assisting in the identification, dissemination and use of PANC was also provided.