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“Conviver com a seca”: contribuição da Articulação do Semi-Árido/ASA para o desenvolvimento sustentável
The Brazilian semi-arid region poses huge challenges to sustainable development: the edapho-climatic characteristics, undoubtedly, but also, and much more so, the prevalence of a policy based on greenrevolution principles and incentives to agribusiness, on one hand, and on assistentialism for the poor in the countryside, on the other. Against the “fighting draught” paradigm – carried on by the construction of large water reservoirs and water distribution through tank trucks, leading to dependence, and its use for irrigation, harming the environment – family farmers and their institutions, organized by the Semi-Arid Articulation/ASA, complain about the “living with draught” principle. They restore and promote experiences born from popular knowledge and improved through contact with scientific knowledge, and change them into references to propose a different public policy model to the public authorities. This is how the P1MC – Programa de Formação e Mobilização para Convivência no Semi-Árido: um Milhão de Cisternas Rurais (Education and Mobilization Program for Semi-Arid Living: One Million Rural Cisterns) was born, followed by P1+2 – Programa Uma Terra e Duas Águas (One Earth/Land and Two Waters Program). The strategy used by the farmers to diversify activities and create water reserves, forage, and seeds, and agro-ecological principles, are at the basis of the development model proposed by ASA. The methodology developed fosters farmer protagonism and its organization, safeguarding the sustainability of the process.
“Conviver com a seca”: contribuição da Articulação do Semi-Árido/ASA para o desenvolvimento sustentável
The Brazilian semi-arid region poses huge challenges to sustainable development: the edapho-climatic characteristics, undoubtedly, but also, and much more so, the prevalence of a policy based on greenrevolution principles and incentives to agribusiness, on one hand, and on assistentialism for the poor in the countryside, on the other. Against the “fighting draught” paradigm – carried on by the construction of large water reservoirs and water distribution through tank trucks, leading to dependence, and its use for irrigation, harming the environment – family farmers and their institutions, organized by the Semi-Arid Articulation/ASA, complain about the “living with draught” principle. They restore and promote experiences born from popular knowledge and improved through contact with scientific knowledge, and change them into references to propose a different public policy model to the public authorities. This is how the P1MC – Programa de Formação e Mobilização para Convivência no Semi-Árido: um Milhão de Cisternas Rurais (Education and Mobilization Program for Semi-Arid Living: One Million Rural Cisterns) was born, followed by P1+2 – Programa Uma Terra e Duas Águas (One Earth/Land and Two Waters Program). The strategy used by the farmers to diversify activities and create water reserves, forage, and seeds, and agro-ecological principles, are at the basis of the development model proposed by ASA. The methodology developed fosters farmer protagonism and its organization, safeguarding the sustainability of the process.
“Conviver com a seca”: contribuição da Articulação do Semi-Árido/ASA para o desenvolvimento sustentável
Ghislaine Duque (author)
2008
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