Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese with Maria Laura Carvalho & Adriano Santos in Boletim DataLuta.
Abstract: In the region of South and Southeast Minas Gerais, building agroecology evolves the protagonism of popular representations. “Bottom-up” initiatives produce political spaces for organization and social mobilization. The region is marked by the historical presence of coffee monoculture and has specific characteristics such as the commodification of territories and the exploitation of subjects in contemporary slave labor. This work aims to understand and analyze the Agroecological and Organic Production Centre of the South and Southwest of Minas (PASSOMG) as a political space, as well as to highlight some territorial actions that seek to subvert the hegemony of agribusiness in the region. The research methodology consists of the use of online questionnaires using Google Forms and direct participant observation. As a result of the research, it is possible to conclude that PASSOMG has been collectively constructed as a political space by different social actors (educational and research institutions, associations, and socio-territorial movements) in search of the agroecological transition, developing denunciatory actions and at the same time announcing agroecology as a strategy of subversion against the destructive model of agribusiness.
Read the article in Portuguese here: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/BD/article/view/55293
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.