AGROECOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN FAMILY AGRICULTURE:
Possibilities, pathways and strategies.
Family farming; Agroecological science; Sustainable development; Public policies; Agroecological transition.
This research project will seek to reflect on the agroecological transition in family farming in the city of Vitória de Santo Antão-PE. Our interest in researching the processes of change for this new integrating matrix of knowledge in family farming arose from understanding, to verify during the research, that this new approach incorporates alternative models of agricultural production under the influence of ecological principles, management and technologies. In this perspective, new ethical behaviors come into force and govern social relations in the daily life of the territories, thus emerging different strategies that aim at the balance of agroecosystems and promote sustainable development in the territory. Still, agroecological science has the potential to promote more autonomous, fair and egalitarian social reproductions that guide the rational use of environmental resources available to meet their economic needs. Our initial look for transition will be from the influences of political subjects who interact in democratic spaces in the search for the (Re)establishment of direct links between farmers, society and the State in the pursuit of sustainable development of the territory. In this sense, it will be necessary to analyze the impacts of sectoral public policies for this paradigm shift in family farming. The theoretical framework initially permeates the following analytical categories: agroecology, family farming, political participation and sustainable territorial development. The methodological approach that we will use in this research part of the bibliographical research, complemented by the principles of exploratory documentary research, allied to the field research procedures. Every course will be traced based on the principles of the qualitative approach and under the influence of the principles of the hypothetical-deductive method