O processo organizativo dos empreendimentos solidários e os princípios da economia solidária: cestas agroecológicas campo cidade Produtos da Terra

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the organizational process of the Agroecological Baskets Country-City Earth Products and its relationship with the principles of the solidarity economy. This solidarity enterprise is part of the Paraná Country-City Solidarity Economy Network – Mandala Network, formed by 8 solidarity economy networks from the countryside and the city. The research approach is qualitative, with an exploratory objective. Snowball sampling was adopted as a methodology, in which an informant considered a seed is interviewed, and the next ones are indicated by the previous interviewee, and só on, until a satisfactory result is reached. The interviewees are coordinators of the work fronts, or were in important periods for the enterprise, allowing the researcher to understand how the principles of the solidarity economy are applied in the organizational process of the solidarity enterprise. The research presented as results that the participation of the solidarity economic enterprise in the forums strengthens both the enterprise and the network in which it is inserted, they are spaces for learning, construction of proposals in the economic, social and political aspects. Regarding the self-management principle, it was observed that the enterprise is guided by this principle, in its organizational process, in planning meetings, decisions in self-management meetings, solidarity is highlighted in the actions promoted and executed together with partner entities in the field and the city during the critical period of the pandemic, extending after its end, rural-city integration and good living was observed in the way the enterprise is conducted, in internal actions, and in the relationship with consumers. As final considerations, the study allowed us to understand that in the organizational process, the principles of the solidarity economy are pursued in the conduct of the enterprise. However, there is a concern for the enterprise in the part that approaches traditional enterprises, since the fact that it is guided by the principles of the solidarity economy does not exempt it from tax, legal and administrative obligations, just like a traditional company, since they are inserted as resistance and construction of another society that is not based on the capitalist model.