Migrações rural/urbano e fluxos de conhecimento agroecológico:o caso de Montes Claros, Minas Gerais

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to understand the agricultural practices that come with the migration from the north-mineiro rural to the urban of Montes Claros. It seeks to identify agricultural practices in the urban area of Montes Claros, analyze the flow of agricultural products, biodiversity and agricultural knowledge that circulate in networks that link the cities from origin to destination. It presents results of a quantitative and qualitative research. It understood analysis of information from databases of public agencies and data collection that was done through semi-structured questionnaire applied to 35 practitioners of urban agriculture, originating from 5 micro-regions (agrienvironment) of North of Minas Gerais (Alto Rio Verde, Mata do Rio Verde, Coração de Jesus, Gerais de São Felipe and Serra Geral), which present a more expressive number of migrants to the urban area of Montes Claros. The survey results show that these migrants retain and reproduce in the urbanarea, agricultural techniques learned in childhood, produce a substantial part of their food and reproduce agro-ecological practices related to traditional family agriculture of North-mineiro. The results also show that most of these urban farmers conserve solid relationships with their cities of origin, receiving and sending genetic material, foods and knowledge. These migrants sought, in the urban work, education, health, income. In this search, they had the support of kinship networks in the origin and in destination, which ensured a more stable insertion in the urban area and contributed to consolidate the changing networks of food, goods and gifts.