Estado da arte em agroecologia e suas relações com experiências no Sul de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present work identifies technological innovations in the agroecological field based in global scientific papers and their relations with the agroecological experiences in the South of Minas Gerais. For this study was made a bibliografic and bibliometric research based on scientific studies in agroecology and organic agriculture. To achive the results, a research was made in the following periodic bases: SciVerse Scopus, Web of Science and Scielo. The state of art in agroecology was systematized. A research in the field level with a study of case were made. The regional experience was characterized and located by a semistructured questionnaire. After collecting and analyzing data provenient of scientific knowledge and practices used by family agricultures, it was possible to determine the relations between this different types of knowledge. It were contabilized 4,739 registres of scientific papers. The interviews were made with 10 organizations of smallholders farmers. Techniques and innovations in agroecology were identified, yielding a high afinity between scientific knowledge and the local practices held by agroecological farmers in southern Minas Gerais.