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Organic agriculture and livestock production systems have been gaining more and more space in the countryside and on the market. This is a result of the need for alternatives to conventional agriculture and cattle production, which is characterized, among other aspects, by its high environmental impact. Thus, in recent decades, the private sector, public institutions and civil society (popular social movements, NGOs, associations, collectives, among others) have begun to develop production systems strongly supported by ecological principles. Therefore, this article aims to identify and analyze the characterization of organic production in the country, with emphasis on its evolution and spatialization. This is an exploratory study that aims to reveal the distribution of organic production in the territory. The research was performed based on literature review and analysis of data from the National Register of Organic Producers (Cadastro Nacional de Produtores Orgânicos - CNPO), provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária - MAPA). The number of organic producers, between 2013 and 2023, showed an increase of almost 400%, with audit certification predominating among organic conformity assessment mechanisms. The South, Northeast and North regions, in 2023, had the largest number of producers. Despite the progress, the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent disruption of public policies for the sector have impacted the trends previously identified in the Brazilian organic production scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at analyzing how agroecology, through the establishment of Agroecological Territorial Systems (SiTAs), contributes to the incentive of territorial development. The research starts from understanding that the territorial development is a result of a different actors’ collective and multiscale action, which is oriented, in this case, towards the agroecology promotion. It is about joining efforts to enable agroecological production, even in adverse contexts. The results indicate that this collective action has produced SiTAs with the capacity to generate income, healthy food production along with environmental preservation, gender inequalities reduction, social justice and new connections between the countryside and the city. Under the relevance of the multidimensionality and multiscalarity of agroecological food production, its benefits reach the whole society, overstepping the countryside boundaries. Nevertheless, there are still major barriers to be surpassed, especially in the public policies instance for the consolidation of SiTAs as promoters of territorial development in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the market of organic products, highlighting the role of networks for the creation of trading spaces. Based on organic production data and on the analysis of different experiences linked to the Circuito Sul de Circulação e Comercialização de Produtos Agroecológicos da Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia (Southern Circuit of Circulation and Commercialization of Agroecological Products of the Ecovida Agroecology Network), the aim was to discuss and problematize the scales in the networks of organic products, with emphasis on the peasant agriculture. In these terms, the market is formed by disputed territorialities, leading to conflicts between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic agents who use different spatial practices to expand their scales of action and strengthen their respective territorial projects. Peasant agriculture, through multi-scale relationships, has created successful alternatives in the organic products market, strengthening its relative autonomy based on Agroecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article has as its main objective share the experience of the fieldwork developed with the Curricular Component (CCR), offered by the by the degree course in Geography of the Federal University of the Southern Frontier (UFFS, campus Erechim/RS). Held five times between the years 2014 and 2019 the itinerary contemplated experiences located in the metropolitan region of Curitiba/PR (Lapa and Curitiba) and in Barra do Rio Turvo/SP, in what confers the movement of struggle for land/territory, for the agrarian reform and for re-existence of the peasants. Through the dialogue with the subjects, the observation and registration of the elements that make up their territorialities, the itinerary provided the students interactions with the logic of socio-territorial organization of the Landless Workers Movement (MST); with actions aimed in the development of productive and organizational agroecological practices and work with Agroforestry Systems (SAFs); with experiences of cooperation and of education in the countryside. Methodologically, the choice of the itinerary and the inherent teaching-learning mediations were aligned with a theoretical conception that dialogued 1) with the "Agrarian Question Paradigm", according to the Fernandes (2005) proposition; and 2) with the own Institutional Political Project (IPP) of the UFFS, institution of higher education forged with the challenge of projecting itself as "popular". In this track, in addition to the presentation of the elements that made up the itinerary itself, we will contextualize, also, the construction of the suggestion of the referred fieldwork elaborated in a straight harmony with the CCR's agenda and with the objectives of the Higher Education Institution in which it is inserted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze in details the discussion about aspects of agrarian question in the North of Rio Grande do Sul in order to contribute to the challenge expressed in the institutional policy of Federal University of Southern Frontier (UFFS) in generating knowledge to change the hegemonic productive matrix and to guide paths that glimpse ecologically engaged ways of produce and live. Therefore, as methodological procedure, we present graphical and cartographic representation of official socioeconomic, and demographic data in order to offer a spatialized reading that allows to readers understand the contradictions of agrarian question in the studied region, as well as presents the positive role of the ONGs acting in the microregion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the theoretical framework of Geography, the aim of this article is to bring up the debate on gender in relation to familiar agriculture, youth and the agrarian question in the scope of the Federal University of the South Border (UFFS), Erechim/RS and Realeza/PR campuses. The research intended to draw a parallel among the different problems faced by regional familiar agriculture in its relation with decisions that implied: 1) the deterritorialization of rural young women; 2) the perspectives of permanence of these women in their original rural spaces; 3) their access to public higher education. For this, based on quantitative-qualitative methodologies, a total of 90 young women from the countryside were surveyed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]