Um olhar socioambiental para a agricultura familiar biodinâmica: a comunidade que sustenta a agricultura em Aldeia, Pernambuco

Abstract

City-country relations are an old theme that appears and reappears in the sociological debate. Former concerns have been about whether this essential component of society, peasant agriculture, would be able to adapt to the changes of a rapidly growing mercantilist world, but peasant family agriculture has in this sense been reshaped from several bases. Thus, although the Green Revolution has generated profound changes in the way of producing food, eating and selling, family farming has been placing itself in one of these places of fundamental importance, that of ensuring the security and food sovereignty of peoples. The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA's) has recently become the stage for these social aspirations and establishing itself as another bias of ecological agriculture focused on the processes of transformation of production, food consumption and socio-economic model. This work presents, therefore, the objective of deepening the knowledge about CSA's and documenting the functioning, management and challenges of CSA Biodynamic 40º NE located in Aldeia - PE. The study of the biodynamic CSA 40º NE demonstrates that one of the greatest challenges, on the part of society, is to understand the CSA as a structure aimed at supporting an ideal of non-mercantile financing of human needs and recovering values forgotten by industrial capitalist society and that management sharing of agricultural activity can help resolve the issue of labor shortages in modern peasant households.