Immersion in the rural areas to learn and contrast academic knowledge with the empirical knowledge in the Benedito Alves Bandeira settlement

Abstract

The objective of the experiment was to make observations and seek the understanding of the
strategies that have been adopted by a family of farmers of the Settlement Benedito Alves
Bandeira and with what organizational logic it develops and organizes the agriculture in its property.
The experiment was carried out on the property of the Matias family, which has an area
of 50 ha, where six people live and live in two houses, all of them residents since the beginning
of the occupation, being the data obtained by means of transversal walks, observations And
informal conversations, direct and indirect observations and at the family level. Observation
and knowledge of family history, customs and culture were of extreme importance for understanding
the organization of the place, the agricultural practices developed and the passion they
have for the land.