Urbanity and agriculture in the contemporary: thinking about foodthrough agroecology bias and relations with a socio-environmental dynamics

Abstract

Agroecology is willing to propose and discuss the current conventional model of agriculture and, consequently, the food production model, highlighting alternatives for changing to ecologically based farming styles. It comprises a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach aimed at ecological, social, economic, cultural, political and ethical sustainability for the production of healthy foods. The dialogues that Agroecology proposes range from farmers' knowledge about plants, about different types of soil, ecological processes, knowledge about the environment in general, all of this knowledge is important to propose a socio-environmental dynamic of society. In this context, to permeate the dialogue that agroecology brings to the urban, seeking to characterize contemporary urbanity and its potential for creating the new, other spaces for agriculture, such as urban agriculture, which has been growing a lot in recent years. The objective of this work is to propose the problematization of urbanity and agriculture in the current scenario, being done through a theoretical research, in which some basic concepts will be discussed to understand these relationships. We will discuss conceptual issues involving the territory, urbanity, agroecology and food production in the contemporary. In addition to the Public Policy approach with a focus on the production of healthy food, contemplating a balanced socio-environmental environment.

Keywords

• agroecology
• socio-environmenta
• environment