Agroecosystems depend and also interfere, positively or negatively, on the different ecosystem services (ES). Understanding its perception is very relevant for the conservation and definition of territorial guidelines, ...

In the context where one can perceive the great clusters of cities problems related to reduced space, urban swelling, environmental degradation; pollution of soil, water and air, and social problems of income and food ...

The systematization of an agroecological transition and the local-regional markets is extremely important to build knowledge on this area. This systematization enable people, who are involved on this work, to have more ...

This dissertation presents a brief historical and an overview of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGSs) experiences worldwide and draws up a sociological analysis concerning the process of organic regulation in Brazil. It ...

The Sepé Tiaraju, the first one settlement in the mode of Sustainable Development Project PDS of São Paulo state, founded in 2004 in the sugarcane region of Ribeirão Preto/SP, has as a proposal being an alternative to ...

Given that the extinction of biodiversity, and considerable environmental and social degradation, is intrinsically linked to the conventional mode of production and consumption patterns, it becomes possible to identify ...

Public policies for indigenous peoples in Brazil have undergone several changes over the last two decades. After the end of military dictatorship and the return to democracy, it was started a process of diversification of ...

Fish culture is na aquaculture field which has been growing a lot in the last few years, specially by fish capture stagnation and for the growing high nutritional quality animal protein demand. A market field that has been ...

Agroecology emerges as a science in the 70´s of the 20th century. It criticizes convencional agriculture based on a paradigm that passes over social individual connected to natural resources management what brings up serious ...

Throughout its history, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has builtdifferent ways of making life possible in its rural settlements in order to generate income, stay in the countryside and care for nature, for both ...