Agroecological transition: a process of social change in an Inhambupe-Bahia community

Abstract

The objective of this work is to report on the experience of building agroecological knowledge,
where there were exchanges of knowledge and experimentation on the part of farmers, ATER
agents, teachers, researchers and students. This was the result of a collective construction of
the Technological Vocational Center in Agroecology and Organic Production of IFPI, the Vocational
Center in Agroecology of IFBaiano and COOPERA-Cooperativa Agropecuária Mista
in the Alagoinhas Region. The methodology used was a participatory research seeking the
horizontalization of a knowledge from the traditional knowledge. The participatory diagnoses
were carried out in the km 08 locality of the municipality of Inhambupe. 22 families participated
between meetings and mobilizations. However the report of this experience is of two experimental
farmers who are in the process of agroecological transition. The results were the learning
and experimentation of agroecological techniques for farmers and technicians.