RIO BONITO SETTLEMENT AND THE DIALOGUE OF KNOWLEDGE: Contributions of Agroecological Practices in an Agrarian Reform Area.
Rio Bonito Settlement; agroecology; dialogue of knowledge; ancestry; memory.
This dissertation focuses on the Rio Bonito Settlement, an agrarian reform area, and aims to understand, through the life stories and narratives of the research participants, the knowledge and practices present in the community, encompassing individual and collective experiences, struggles, and challenges in the pursuit of access to land and sustainable agriculture in a context of resistance. The work is based on a qualitative research approach, associated with the method of life stories and dialogue of knowledge of the settlers who have experienced and continue to experience the transformations present in the settlement, identifying the importance of agrarian reform for the local people and its role in social transformation and the development of awareness in each settler. This approach allowed for the production of descriptive data from the researcher's direct contact with the social phenomena and the context of the subjects in the reality of the Rio Bonito Settlement. It broadly understands the different situations and realities interconnected with the struggle for access to land and resistance in maintaining sustainability. Thus, the stories and narratives of the community members highlight experiences, understanding to what extent the life stories of individuals belonging to the Rio Bonito Settlement demonstrate individual and collective experiences in the struggle for land and agroecology. Agrarian reform is characterized as a complex policy that should not be understood only as the distribution of land, but as a complete program that benefits rural workers and provides, in addition to land ownership, conditions for survival.