PUBLIC POLICIES, AGROECOLOGY AND AGROEXTRACTIVISM IN THE RURAL SETTLEMENTS THE CITY OF CÁCERES, REGION SOUTHWEST MATO GROSSO

doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2016.16576 The paper aimed to discuss how public policies, agroecology and agroextractivism contribute to food and nutritional security of rural families in the municipality of Cáceres/MT, in addition to highlighting the importance of these instruments on ownership and empowerment of the peasants against the arrival of cane sugar, land grabs and the pressure of the big landowners around the settlements of the municipality. The methodological procedures were adopted: literature review, aiming theoretically subsidize their analyzes; collecting data and information on public bodies; addition to field work. Concrete experiences in agroecology the city of Cáceres directly contribute to the welfare of rural families, generating income and food security and nutrition, since they are produced food of sufficient quality for family sustenance and marketed surplus amount. The success of this model is in harmonious relationship with nature, unlike the dominant development model in Brazil that relies on a mode of production that requires increasingly destroy natural resources, consume more products, contaminating the environment with pesticides used in the production of conventional agriculture.