DESAFIOS DA PRODUÇÃO AGRÍCOLA CAMPONESA NOS ASSENTAMENTOS DE REFORMA AGRÁRIA Assentamento Milton Santos – Americana/SP

Abstract

This article discusses the experience of extension in Agricultural Geography coordinated by Prof. Drs. Larissa Mies Bombardi and Sidneide Manfredini, together with a group of students of the Department of Geography at USP. This work aims at supporting agricultural practices and trading, beginning in Milton Santos settlement located between the cities of Americana and Cosmopolis - Sao Paulo. This settlement has singularities that impose as challenges to its effective deployment: Designed in the molds of Comuna da Terra, it is composed almost entirely by families of urban origins, it is located in a region specialized in sugar cane monoculture and it is located about 10km from the urban areas of municipalities that affect it (Americana, Cosmópolis e Paulínia). As they managed to add different skills to the group initially consisting solely of geographers, with students and teachers of Escola Superior de Agronomia Luiz de Queiroz, of the Sanitary Engineering at Escola Politécnica and the Faculdade de Arquitetura da USP, the project was widening and redirecting its initial objectives. The implementation of optimal farming systems, which constrain the effective implementation of the settlement, necessitates the recovery of peasant culture, especially over the factors which contribute to seizure and appropriation of the landscape as far as scientific knowledge embedded in technology to be employed, or limits imposed by the legislation concerning the environmental licensing of agrarian reform projects. The actions of this working group began swifting towards brokering the appropriation of such knowledge, a view of participatory management that will contribute to the structuring of the social fabric of the collective, leading the settlers to acknowledge themselves as the subjects in the production of this new space.