Sobre respeitar todas as vidas: análise da produção e da comercialização agroecológica da Ecovárzea em sua feira em João Pessoa

Abstract

This research investigated, through ethnographic research, agroecological production and consumption at the Ecovárzea fair (Association of Agriculturists and Agroecological Farmers of Várzea Paraibana) located at the Federal University of Paraíba, in the city of João Pessoa/PB. The purpose of this work was to understand how Ecovárzea, through the production and commercialization of agroecological products, exists in this hegemonic food scenario. Faced with a context in which Agribusiness, nutritionism, supermarkets, capitalist logic, the acceleration of space/time in modernity and the insertion of women in the labor market have contributed to traditional food knowledge (of production and consumption), environmental preservation and the autonomy of all beings are in decline, being replaced by the food industry. Thus, this ethnographic study made use of the concepts of Life Ecology and Lattice (Ingold 2000; 2012) to analyze this process. Looking at food through its potential for resistance and overcoming the nature/culture dichotomy in formulating a new perspective on the world. Thus, the objective of this work is to apprehend how customers, farmers, the UFPB (Federal University of Paraíba), social movements and the style of the fair contribute to this movement.