Exchange of Knowledge, Settlements, Citizen Science, Conservation, Restoration, Technical Visit.

Abstract

The technical visits have as a characteristic to develop learning outside the university environment, thus interfering directly in the thinking and acting of academics. Guided by these purposes, the PET Biological Sciences group held a technical visit to the Lagoa Grande settlement in the district of Itahum, in the municipality of Dourados – MS, with the aim of promoting interaction among the members and enabling the construction of their knowledge about the theme: Family agriculture managed by a solidarity economy in an agroecological production model where economic cooperation takes place and the self-management of resources acquired among the participants of the group. The year in question celebrated the 10 years that the project “Cerrado em pé” was implemented by the tutor of the PET Biological Sciences group, whose purpose was to guide the settlement community to work in a sustainable way, demonstrating that it is possible for family agriculture to make sustainable and ecological use of Cerrado Sul-Mato-Grossense and also to obtain profits for the sustenance of these families, not having the need to transform the cerrado into pasture as do the latifundios, that convert large extensions of native vegetation into pasture and monoculture in the central-west region, contributing for the cerrado to become the the country's most endangered biome.