Networks and agencies

urban agriculture, a collective action for food self-sufficiency in the city of goiânia

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate, from an anthropological perspective, the possible paths for generating healthy food in urban and peri-urban environments, exploring the urban landscape and its imaginary, controversies and management practices that persist despite time. Its main objective is to map, through ethnographic means, the existing connections between the various territories that make up the dynamic process of urban agriculture in the macro-region of the city of Goiânia. The purpose of this mapping is to observe food systems, their representations, and the cultural axis that associates them, especially from anthropological research on food sovereignty, also in a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary manner. It also seeks to understand the particularities of management, the peculiar conditions of the cerrado biome, especially its rainfall regime. The researched area, in addition to the metropolitan region, is part of the diameter called Short Production Circuit (CCP). The theoretical-methodological framework is centered on the Actor-Network Theory and the development of Bruno Latour's work based on it, in addition to the contributions of other authors who have simultaneously carried out their works in an interwoven and complementary way. It also considers the current climate conditions and their implications - a phenomenon known as the Anthropocene - considering how they reverberate in the production of quality food in sufficient quantities to satisfy hunger. The research claims the viability of making the urban environment a major food provider through strategies associated with urban agriculture. In view of this, it discusses the impacts generated by the high use of poisons and fertilizers, encompassed by the term agrochemicals.