Banca de DEFESA: PAULO JOSE DE SANTANA

COLLECTIVE ACTION AND AGROECOLOGY: the paths of social mobilization for the construction of a municipal public policy in Bonito/PE

Collective action; construction of agroecological knowledge; territory; agroecological transition; public policy

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.