Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VALDENÍ VENCESLAU BEVENUTO

SILENCED TRAJECTORIES: a comparative study of productive/agroecological mandalas in the Sertão of Pernambuco

Agroecology, Peasantry, Systemics practices.

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.