Transformation of space from Urban Agriculture in the city of Recife/PE Recife/PE: the case of the Integrated Community Garden Project around CEASA/PE
1. Urban Agriculture; 2. Regional Development; 3. Public Policies.
Urban Agriculture has been gaining prominence, above all, in the environmental
discussion and its ability to produce food in urban spaces. Its practice comprises a
multiplicity of agricultural activities in the cities and involves the social exercise of
cultivation and production of food and inputs, processing, animal husbandry, collection,
extractivism, among other activities based on local particularities. This social activity
proposes structural changes in the occupation of urban spaces, acting, for example, in
combating poverty and food and nutritional security. This subject has taken place in
the main debates both by scholars and by the actions of public policy managers. This
study is based on research on the Integrated Project of Community Gardens around
CEASA/PE, created in 2008, with the objective of producing healthy food, providing
job opportunities and income generation, as well as making the most of public areas
idle, so that invasions are avoided. The first steps of this research coincided with the
questioning whether the project dynamizes the space/municipality, or just integrates
an exogenous development project. To answer this question, the socio-spatial
dynamics observed around CEASA/PE will be analyzed before and after the insertion
of the project, seeking to identify the changes in the municipality resulting from its
implementation. The research will identify the objectives and justifications that were
established regarding the decision to implement the Integrated Project of Community
Gardens around CEASA/PE in the city of Recife; will compare the current reality with
the forecast in the letter of intent of the public policy in question; will identify the main
environmental impacts in areas directly linked to the Integrated Project of Community
Gardens around CEASA-PE. The methodology used will be the case study, using
secondary and primary data, the latter in the form of semi-structured interviews. Finally,
the main conclusions obtained from the analyzes carried out will be listed, seeking
answers to the questions that guide the research, and that configure its objective.