Agroecologia em Verê Pr: sustentabilidade e (re)existência

Abstract

This research seeks to understand how the cultural identities of agroecological farmers in the municipality of Verê - PR are constituted in processes of (re)existences. The municipality is located in the Southwest region of the state of Paraná and has a prominent focus in the region in agroecological issues, and in institutions related to this purpose, which brings the focus of the research to this municipality. Agroecology has increasingly shown its importance in the midst of several modern crises, and playing a fundamental role for sustainable development combined with the care of nature and the search for healthy and quality food. In this sense, the research seeks to observe the relationship of the cultural identity of the subjects who compose agroecology in the municipality of Verê - PR, through an anthropological qualitative methodology, making visits in agroecological properties and scripts of interviews with producers and leaders of institutions related to agroecological issues in the municipality. We hope to understand about the producers and subjects related to agroecology in the municipality of Verê – PR whether they identify themselves as different, or not, and this possible difference is in their food production, in the work in the institutions, in their way of seeing the world and thus in their cultural identities, if these characteristics make them a (re)existence to the conventional agricultural production mode, and whether a cultural identity is formed around agroecological issues or not.