Atores em rede na produção da agroecologia: Um estudo das feiras agroecológicas da microrregião de Campina Grande – PB

Abstract

This dissertation aims at the analysis of public policies that has been promoting the agroecology, reflecting more centrally on the process of articulation designed to implement it, boosting the agro-ecological focus in the Microregion of Campina Grande, using as empirical reference seven agroecological fairs that take place weekly in two of the eight municipalities of the Microregion (Campina Grande and Lagoa Seca). Therefore, we seek to understand how policies, programs and other actions are established to support these alternative marketing spaces, following three actors‟ network (Polo Sindical da Borborema, EMATER and COONAP) who manage, implement government actions and put into practice the discourses raised by the flag of agroecology social movements. We analysing how this tangle of articulations works in the perspective of Actor-Network Theory (ART), to strengthen agroecology as productive strategy for family farming. In this context, to carry out the work, the methodology used was the documentary research, non- participant observation of fairs and semi-structured interviews with the various actors (farmers / merchants, consumers, institutional mediators) that periodically build these spaces. The data analysis was carried out by qualitative technique (content analysis). The survey results show that the heterogeneity presented by the networks shows differences in effective support for family farming and agro-ecological practices in the researched area. Although not presenting great expressiveness in the Microregion, locally operated public policies have generated the proximity between production and consumption, diversification of production and increase in family income through agroecological fairs, farmers/merchants' access to state policies and the incorporation of contact to socio- technical networks.