Banca de DEFESA: CHRISTIANE FERNANDES DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CHRISTIANE FERNANDES DOS SANTOS
DATE: 29/06/2022
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Videoconferencia via Google Meet (https://meet.google.com/etm-vsby-cbz)
TITLE:

WHAT ARE YOU THIRSTY OF? THE TANK PROGRAM IN THE PROMOTION OF FOOD SAFETY IN THE BRAZILIAN SEMI-ARID

KEY WORDS:

Family Farming; P1MC; P1+2; Food safety; coloniality

PAGES: 145
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Ciências Ambientais
SUMMARY:

The drought that permeates the northeastern semi-arid region, although it has a natural character, triggers several social, economic and political problems expressed mainly by hunger, migrations, spread of diseases and even deaths. For decades, the discourse on combating drought has been the basis for the design of public policies; however, their results were not enough to solve the problem. At the end of the 1990s, with the strengthening discourse on coexistence with the semi-arid region, the problem of water began to be seen under a new bias, as it was observed that the main cause was not the scarcity, but the forms of distribution, storage and governance of that resource. Within this context, the Articulation of the Semi-Arid (ASA) developed the Formation and Social Mobilization Program for interaction with the Semi-Arid Region: One Million Rural Cisterns, instigating the adoption of the culture of water storage, initially for human consumption, through the One Million Rural Cisterns Program (P1MC) and, later, for food production, through the One Land and Two Waters (P1+2). Thus, the question that guided the study in question was structured as follows: How the politics of cisterns has been able to democratize access to water, guarantee food security and to be a pedagogical instrument for expanding the autonomy of beneficiaries? Therefore, the analysis was centered on the P1MC Program and P1+2. The main objective was to analyze how the technologies coming from these programs have favored access to water and food and, consequently, reflected in the food security of the beneficiary families. The thesis is organized into four main parts: the first deals with the theoretical and methodological aspects of the research (Introduction, theoretical foundation and methodological aspects). The other parts consist on elaboration of three paper whose purpose was to reflect the specific objectives of the research. The first paper, entitled “What are you thirsty of? The Cistern Programs in the Brazilian Potiguar Semiarid as Development Devices" aimed to analyze the evolution of the implementation process on Cistern Programs in the Rio Grande do Norte state, pointing out the possible implications of dismantling this politics for rural families in the Potiguar semiarid region. From a documental and bibliographic review, the trajectory of execution of these Programs was reconstituted, the state of the art was also developed, presenting the possible scenarios and consequences of their emptying. The paper evidenced that Cistern Programs have important contributions to family farming, which are expressed in different dimensions: political, social, economic. The inclusive character of the action was highlighted, as well as its mobilizing capacity, built through the valorization of knowledge and local reality. It is prominent in the studies to refer to the improvement the life quality of  population that started with the access to water for consumption and, later, enabled agroecological production, expanding the possibilities of food security. However, the discontinuity of this politics means depriving thousands of poor peasants from expanding their capacities. The second, “P1+2 and food (in) security in the Northeastern semi-arid region”, sought to understand how P1+2 expanded access to water and food, and how this is reflected in food security and in the different forms of freedoms of the beneficiary families. Through literature and documental Reading review, the development politics for the Northeast were contextualized, as well as the Program's trajectory and its contributions for the beneficiary families. The analysis was made from the perspective of development as freedom, by Sen. It was evidenced that the Program has important contributions, mainly, to food security of the beneficiary families. However, its discontinuity represents a scenario of deprivations of protective security, social opportunities and their individual freedoms. Finally, the paper “Beyond food security: the cistern politics from the perspective of coloniality/ancoloniality” aimed to reflect on how P1+2 promotes ancolonialitys processes based on access to water and food. As a methodological resource, the literature and documental review was done, as well as interviews with representatives of two executing units of the Program and with 42 beneficiary families. The field research was done in the “Sertão do Apodi” Territory, at the State of Rio Grande do Norte (RN). The analysis was made from the understanding of coloniality/ancoloniality as noted by Maldonado-Torres (2007) and Castro-Gómes (2012) among others. It can be observed that the P1+2 presents itself as an instrument of ancoloniality since it represents the conquest of a whole struggle that was (and is) in agreement of access, control and management of water, food and, mainly, for the food sovereignty. It is based on other epistemological logics that are built based on the ecology of knowledge, as discussed by Santos (2007), allowing families to break the hierarchies that were built, for decades, in the field of knowledge, power and being through the implemented politics from the perspective of combating drought and agricultural modernization. Despite the importance of the program as an instrument of ancoloniality being expressed, it was possible to observe some limiting elements such as, for example, financial difficulty of families to assume the counterpart required by the Program; the dependence of families on the municipal government to pay for the energy of the pumps that supply the cisterns and also for their refueling in periods of drought; and the need to buy water at a certain time of the year. The study presents an interdisciplinary approach as it mobilizes readings and reflections from different areas of knowledge. In general, it was evidenced that the P1MC and the P1+2 allow access to water and food, contributing to the food security of the beneficiary families, constituting themselves as important instruments of ancoloniality and freedom.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1678883 - CIMONE ROZENDO DE SOUZA
Interna - 1298966 - RAQUEL FRANCO DE SOUZA
Externo ao Programa - 1149547 - ROBERTO MARINHO ALVES DA SILVA - UFRNExterna à Instituição - PATRÍCIA VERÔNICA PINHEIRO SALES LIMA - UFC
Externo à Instituição - PAULO CESAR OLIVEIRA DINIZ - UFCG