RECOVERY OF HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES THROUGH EXPERIENCES OF AGROECOLOGY AND URBAN AGRICULTURE
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2017.28751Keywords:
Healthy Diet. Agriculture. Agroecology.Abstract
The article discusses the recovery of practices focused on food, health and the environment, resulting from involvement in agroecological urban agriculture activities, within Health Promotion and Food and Nutrition Security. Four workshops were organized to systematize the experiences of the agroecological urban agriculture project known as "ColhendoSustentabilidade” (Harvesting Sustainability), in 2012 and 2013. The systematization of experiences is a participatory qualitative research methodology that enables a reflexive reconstruction of a collective experience. Twenty-four people participated in this process in four workshops. Data were collected, through one of the workshops that aimed to identify the impact of the project on the daily life of all those involved. They were organized and analyzed within the following categories related to Health Promotion: reinforcement of community action, empowerment, social participation and skills development. The findings revealed that contact with land in garden activities contributes to cultural recovery and construction of new knowledge; for the gradual change of eating habits, since it emphasizes the relationship between food and health and the environment, in addition to providing moments of social interaction involving food. The authors concluded that the mixture of traditional and scientific knowledge, built through participatory and dialogic pedagogical strategies, allows the exchange of experiences about different aspects of food, and suggests that initiatives such as the one analyzed in this study can contribute to cultural recovery, empowerment and the development of sustainable and health promoting practices.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2017.28751
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