Comments: Pedro Hespanha and Luciane Lucas dos Santos (CES)


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This workshop will present the partial results of doctoral research on the production of metropolitan space by agroecology initiatives in Porto Alegre. In this and other Brazilian metropolises, the agroecological movement has presented itself as a relevant field of dispute for "good living" in the city.

The research focuses especially on the concrete experiences of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), located in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. These are cooperative practices that have overlapped over the last twenty years, such as: 1) organic production and collective certification; 2) marketing logistics (ecological fairs, shops in central areas, distribution of baskets and institutional markets); 3) the construction of agrovillages and agro-industries; and 4) the production of ecological urban services.

Field-city interactions and the production of infrastructures in two production chains will be privileged: Ecological Rice and Vegetables and Fruit. The aim is to make visible the cooperative practices that make up the MST's food system in its different scales of action - local, regional and national.

Bio note 

Fernanda Petrus is a PhD candidate at the University of Coimbra. Her research institutions are the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCTUC) and the Centre for Social Studies (CES). She holds a degree in Architecture and a Master's degree in Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is a member of the Study Group on Solidarity Economy of the CES (ECOSOL/CES) and of the Núcleo de Solidariedade Técnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Soltec/NIDES/UFRJ). She develops research and university outreach projects focusing on the following themes: urban self-management; social movements; right to the city and popular and solidarity economy.