Educação ambiental para sustentabilidade e o consumo de alimentos agroecológicos no município de Bonito-PE

Abstract

The present project was developed in a municipal school in the North Strait of Bonito - PE, articulated with the major action of the Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives of UFRPE (INCUBACOOP), which has been developing action in the county since 2016. The centrality of actions developed are related to the preservation of natural agroecosystems, as well as to the consumption of healthy and agroecological foods based on agroecology, education for environmental sustainability and solidarity economy. The general objective of the present proposal is to develop environmental education actions in a rural school, in the county of Bonito-PE, considering its socio-environmental characteristics and the work already developed in county by INCUBACOOP / UFRPE, aiming at raising the awareness of teachers, students and school community for the consumption of healthy food and for the agroecological transition on the farmer’s properties / participants in the school community. The proposal was developed through a partnership with the county of Bonito, with the support of the respective secretariats of the Environment and Education, and Coletivo Aimirim. This extension project had a qualitative and participatory methodological basis, and was guided by action research references (THIOLLENT, 1985), (BRANDÃO, 1985), (MORIN, 2004) among others and tools - application of a questionnaire with teachers and students, meeting with student families, exchange and practical activities at school. As a final result, we obtained as a result a greater involvement of youth in themes related to the environment, as well as a broader process of raising awareness among farming families regarding the reduction, or even elimination of the use of pesticides, preserving for food and nutritional sovereignty and security of the region, as well as, a basic formation of the ecological processes of good practices in the social and political praxis, valuing its territory and its local agrobiodiversity.