Inventory of Agroecological Practices as part of the "Peasant to Peasant" Methodology in Ceará: an instrument to decolonize a territory and (re)value peasant knowledge

Authors

  • Ivanete Ferreira Fernandes Escola de Ensino Médio do Campo Florestan Fernandes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-263X
  • Lia Pinhero Barbosa Professora Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS) e do Mestrado Acadêmico Intercampi em Educação e Ensino (MAIE), Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-9027
  • Cosma dos Santos Damasceno Escola de Ensino Médio do Campo Francisco Araújo Barros http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5200-0825
  • Peter Michael Rosset Professor-investigador do El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) Profesor BPV-FUNCAP del Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS), Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) Professor Colaborador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Territorial na América Latina e Caribe (TerritoriAL), Universidade Paulista (UNESP) Professor visitante, Social Research Institute (CUSRI), Chulalongkorn University (Chula) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1253-1066

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v58i0.77777

Keywords:

inventory of practices, agroecology, peasant to peasant, territorialization, decolonization

Abstract

In this article we address the use of an inventory or mapping of agroecological practices, which is part of the "Peasant to Peasant" methodology (PtP) for promoting the territorialization of peasant agroecology, as a method that also serves for the epistemic decolonization of a territory. The so-called Green Revolution involved the imposition of exogenous technologies and knowledge, causing the fragmentation and devaluing of local peasant knowledge and farming practices adapted to local conditions. In effect, it was an epistemic colonization.  The PtP methodology is based on peasant protagonism to recover and socialize agroecological knowledge.  We use the case of the PtP process in the Santana land reform settlement of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Ceará, Brazil, to demonstrate and analyze the inventory of Practices as a collective tool for decolonization as part of the territorialization of agroecology.

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Published

2021-11-29

How to Cite

Fernandes, I. F., Barbosa, L. P., Damasceno, C. dos S., & Rosset, P. M. (2021). Inventory of Agroecological Practices as part of the "Peasant to Peasant" Methodology in Ceará: an instrument to decolonize a territory and (re)value peasant knowledge. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 58. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v58i0.77777

Issue

Vol. 58 (2021): Territorialization of agroecology

Section

Territorialization of agroecology

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