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DAYS OF TOUR, APPROACH AND TRAINING IN SETTLEMENTS MST (Brazil-RGS)

Last April, an approach made by a team of university extension to different production systems in settlements Movement Landless (MST) in Brazil. BIONATURE were visited (agroecological seed cooperative enterprise) in the Municipality of Hulha Black (Settlement "Fronteira Livre" and Santa Elmira) and the cooperative dairy cooperative and self COOPAVA (Settlement Vista Alegre) in the Municipality of Piratini, ending the tour at Camp MST in Sao Gabriel.

In this instance a guest Campon technician together with members of Commission Outreach and Activities Sector in the Middle (CSEAM) Artigas Extension Unit, Centre for Popular Education and Bella Union workers Raul Colonia Sendic Antonaccio, UTAA (Union of Sugar Workers of Artigas), APPARBU (Association of Small Farmers and Rural Employees Bella Union), Settlers of Mandiyú (dairy), Socal (union of workers of the factory ALUR - Bella Union) Group Jóvenes.Dicha activity is part of the work being done SECAM along with the group of rural workers in a joint contribution towards training and organizational strengthening of rural workers' groups.

The objectives of this visit were several:

• an approach to the MST in relation to its history, objectives, strategies, context and analysis of the current situation.
• know the social, economic and political settlements of the MST. Study
• organizational and technological perspective (cooperation and agro-ecological production mode).

believe that such experiences allows workers to strengthen links between sectors and social movements that have a critical look at current agro-export model, as well as joint projects to build a production model first alternative where a balanced relationship with nature and distribute its benefits equitably throughout society.

Interestingly it was found that the MST is working permanently in alternative productive partnerships of various types and in this context what surprised us is the creativity and participation of all workers involved.

These experiences form part of an ongoing struggle to create another world, a new mode of production that is sustainable, with a new relationship between man and nature.

Also know these cooperatives helped to demystify the idea that organic necessarily mean higher costs and higher final price, making the good food is a privilege not a right. Here cooperatives understand that organic production is not just for the rich, but everyone should have access to it.

Finally moved some features of the characterization of production systems observed:

• agroecological Vision (The production unit is an ecosystem subject to a particular ecological dynamics determined by a space and time.)
• Improve basic food production and conservation of native germplasm (native) of the crop.
• effective use of local resources (land, labor, agricultural products, etc.).
• Diversification of production through polyculture and integrated land-livestock agriculture.
• point to adapt the technology to the production of scale.
• Food sovereignty (approximates the relationship between production and consumption). Perspective
• associated products in various types (cooperatives, "Ming", single and mixed-associative).
• The foundation (the center of concern) of the agro-ecosystem is the family unit and its reproduction.
• aspire to be an alternative model anti-capitalist system.
• Parental Control over production and labor (food sovereignty).
• A permanent and active concern for gender issues.