Política envenena? O projeto de lei 6299/2002 pela perspectiva da rede sociotécnica.

Abstract

This research investigates how the regulatory framework on national pesticide policy, namely the 6299/02 law project, mobilizes and commands not only aspects related to chemical substances but also in which manners it put in action certain rhetorics oriented by the flexibility and facilitation of registration rules and a relativization of the risks involved in the use of pesticides. We are likewise interested in how the PL 6299/02, in the big picture, is linked to food production and circulation systems - specifically to Food and Nutrition Security and Food Sovereignty paradigms. Methodologically inspired by document's ethnography, we pinpoint how the issue of pesticides goes through bureaucratic rituals and we question how the documents (such as votes and technical notes) are designed and permeated by relations and negotiations of power. At the centre of this controversy, seen through latourian lens, a sociotechnical network is established. It deals with the relationship between legislation and food, exercising the crucial activity of ordering beings. We find that the Food Security paradigm is maneuvered in such a way as to reconcile human and environmental health (and all the risks involved) with the "health of the market", and that the Food Sovereignty paradigm, although advocated by some important actors in the process, is deprecated. It is also perceived that Food Sovereignty - based on the core ideals of agroecology, and its contribution towards an alternative model of food production still does not find a safe haven in Brazilian legal doctrine, clashing with the hegemonic model of agribusiness - as it expresses an emblem of progress.