Abstract
Alternative food networks have emerged in recent decades as a bottom-up social phenomenon and consist of food provision initiatives that seek to operate outside globalized industrial supply chains that incorporate the values of social justice, environmental sustainability, community health and democracy. In this sense, the present study aimed to analyze the contributions that the virtual agroecological fair action plan between family farming and federal institutions in the state of Goiás-Brazil brought to family farmers. The methodology is characterized by an action research both by the character of the collaborative construction action plan of an agroecological fair, and by the structure of development in which the insertion of authors is guided by the permanent collection of elements of the practice and, also, for the development of small interventions that help to elucidate the problems detected, through problematization and theoretical deepening. The Virtual Agroecological Interinstitutional Fair is held in an interinstitutional and collaborative way with family farmers with the appreciation of family farming of ecological Goiás basis and culminates in a path that enhances more sustainable territorial development with income generation, weaves an alternative for food supply and the promotion of the alternative food network “from the countryside to the city” in the face of socio-environmental rationality, in addition to a fairer and more equitable society, with the enhancement of biodiversity and the offer of food produced in the face of ecological practices.
Highlights
The Brazilian food pattern follows developed countries and constitutes a dependent and interconnected system between supply, demand, niche markets, large marketing networks and meets the interests of world economic policy (Monteiro et al, 2013; Litre, et al, 2014), promoting various territorial changes in the supply of food, such as enhancing the regional agricultural potential, strengthening long production chains, increasing the distance of consumers throughout the food production process; replacing fresh foods by ultra-processed industrialized products, standardizing taste and monotony in the choice of food. This system corroborates for an unhealthy diet and with a health risk factor (Monteiro et al, 2013; Brasil, 2014; HLPE, 2017a, 2017b) and mainly in the rural area, family farming practices are replaced by agro-industrial complexes, industrialization of agriculture leading to a change in the agricultural profile and the agrifood system according to capitalist rationality, being characterized by the characteristics of intensive use of chemical/agrochemical inputs, technologies and mechanization in production processes, subsidies of agricultural credits to agroindustries, companies of machinery and production of ultra-processed industrialized foods (HLPE, 2017a, 2017b; Barros, 2018)
3.1 Collaborative construction of the Virtual Agroecological Interinstitutional Fair In six edition, there were an average of 40 orders and a total of 165 types of food were offered, which changed by edition according to seasonality
Main foods offered at the Virtual Agroecological Interinstitutional Fair by family farmers in the Canudos settlement, independent group and solidarity network Berço das Águas
Summary
The Brazilian food pattern follows developed countries and constitutes a dependent and interconnected system between supply, demand, niche markets, large marketing networks and meets the interests of world economic policy (Monteiro et al, 2013; Litre, et al, 2014), promoting various territorial changes in the supply of food, such as enhancing the regional agricultural potential, strengthening long production chains, increasing the distance of consumers throughout the food production process; replacing fresh foods by ultra-processed industrialized products, standardizing taste and monotony in the choice of food This system corroborates for an unhealthy diet and with a health risk factor (Monteiro et al, 2013; Brasil, 2014; HLPE, 2017a, 2017b) and mainly in the rural area, family farming practices are replaced by agro-industrial complexes, industrialization of agriculture leading to a change in the agricultural profile and the agrifood system according to capitalist rationality, being characterized by the characteristics of intensive use of chemical/agrochemical inputs, technologies and mechanization in production processes, subsidies of agricultural credits to agroindustries, companies of machinery and production of ultra-processed industrialized foods (HLPE, 2017a, 2017b; Barros, 2018). This study provides tools to understand the potential of agroecological fairs in certain territories, with information for public politics, market agents and institutions in the sector
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