A assistência técnica e extensão rural no assentamento modelo: proposição e realidade

This discourse analyzes the technical assistance concerning the rural settlement, which is seen as a demand of the social movement that claims for agrarian reformation, and is a goal of II PNRA, launched in may 2004, as a essential national public politics on process of building and consolidation of settlement and familiar agriculture, proposing the return of technical assistance service and rural extension in Brazil, which were started in the and of 1940 s. We analyze, in particular, the technical assistance program, social and environmental agrarian reformation, on model settlement, a program created, especially, to the rural settlements, coordinated by INCRA. Based on the documental analyze and local study, it is noticed that the experience of technical assistance implemented on model settlement shows the non continuation and fragility on technical assistance actions to rural workers. This context goes against the lately technical assistance governmental apparatus, which ensures to make settlements stronger, to support and to get important the familiar agriculture system. This way, technical assistance execution, trough the tertiary service, follows the neoliberal strategy and, the State, besides decreases the estimate to public politics, takes its actions control from the State to the shared control through partnership and transferring of responsibility, expressing its historic lack of attention to the worker class demands. In spite of workers resistance, expectative and hope, the lack of these services, as well as the other politics deficiencies, which are necessary to the settlements, are endangering its activities and threatening its survival in the settlement

Epidemiological aspects in leptospirosis. Research of anti-Leptospira spp antibodies, isolation and biomolecular research in bovines, rodents and workers in rural properties from Botucatu, SP, Brazil.

Leptospirosis is a worldwide infection, transmitted between man and animals that causes a decrease in the production of bovine flocks, and offer risks for public health, as an important zoonosis. The rodents are the main reservoirs of leptospires. It was studied 27 dairy farm properties located in or near from Botucatu-SP, Brazil. In these farms were collected blood and kidney samples from rodents, blood and urine samples from bovines and blood samples from the workers. The serology was performed with microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Samples of bovine urine and rodent kidneys were cultivated searching for leptospires isolation. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the kidneys of the rodents was performed. In MAT, 46/ 140 (32.85%) bovine and 8/34 (23.53%) human sera samples were positive, respectively. In human samples, the serovar Brastilava (37.51%) presented the highest occurrence, while in bovines, the serovars Hardjo and Castellonis were most frequent, with 26.08% each one. All of the rodents were negatives in serology. No leptospire was isolated, and kidney samples were negative in PCR. In bovines, the dam water and the bad hygiene quality of milking process were considered important risks of infection in the affected properties (p<0.05), where other reproductive problems, except abortion, can be related. In other side, to human beings the drainage system was the most important risk factor in the studied properties. Thus, it was verified the necessity of an improvement in zoosanitary handling of the properties, mainly of water supply.

Análise da variabilidade das chuvas e sua relação com a produtividade da soja na vertente paranaense da bacia do Paranapanema

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Gestão integrada de resíduos sólidos urbanos nos municípios da UGRHI- 14 Alto Paranapanema: interfaces concretas e potencialidades

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Gênese, desenvolvimento, crise e reformas nos serviços públicos de extensão rural durante a década de 1990

This article presents an historical overview of the processes of genesis, development, crisis and reforms in public agricultural extension throughout the 1990s, offering an overview of its main determinants, based on the literature on the subject. In this way, we analyzed the process of constitution of institutional apparatuses for the offering of extension services and linking policies technical modernization of agriculture worldwide during the postwar period, weaving considerations on the Brazilian case. The article also examines the aspects that determined the emergence of a crisis of public extension occurred during the 1980s, amid intensifying criticism of the Green Revolution model of agriculture. Finally, the article seeks to highlight the connections between the crisis and the reforms of privatization of public extension occurred in several countries during the 1990s guided the redesign of its institutional forms, forms of financing, its goals, its target audience, the working methodologies and technological matrix advocated

A Importância do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) nos territórios da cidadania dos Estados de Minas Gerais e da Bahia : Criação de novos mercados a partir da visão dos Agentes de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER)

This article aims to identify how the Foodstuff Acquisition Program has influenced market creation for family farmers in two Brazilian states - Minas Gerais e Bahia and also the limitations and benefits of the program from the point of view of the extension agents. A bibliographic research and a quantitative exploratory study were conducted, questionnaires were sent to extension agents who work for public rural extension agencies, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives and producers' associations, during the year 2010-2011.

Gênese, desenvolvimento, crise e reformas nos serviços públicos de extensão rural durante a década de 1990

This article presents an historical overview of the processes of genesis, development, crisis and reforms in public agricultural extension throughout the 1990s, offering an overview of its main determinants, based on the literature on the subject. In this way, we analyzed the process of constitution of institutional apparatuses for the offering of extension services and linking policies technical modernization of agriculture worldwide during the postwar period, weaving considerations on the Brazilian case. The article also examines the aspects that determined the emergence of a crisis of public extension occurred during the 1980s, amid intensifying criticism of the Green Revolution model of agriculture. Finally, the article seeks to highlight the connections between the crisis and the reforms of privatization of public extension occurred in several countries during the 1990s guided the redesign of its institutional forms, forms of financing, its goals, its target audience, the working methodologies and technological matrix advocated

A Importância do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) nos territórios da cidadania dos Estados de Minas Gerais e da Bahia : Criação de novos mercados a partir da visão dos Agentes de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER)

This article aims to identify how the Foodstuff Acquisition Program has influenced market creation for family farmers in two Brazilian states - Minas Gerais e Bahia and also the limitations and benefits of the program from the point of view of the extension agents. A bibliographic research and a quantitative exploratory study were conducted, questionnaires were sent to extension agents who work for public rural extension agencies, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives and producers' associations, during the year 2010-2011.

Gênese, desenvolvimento, crise e reformas nos serviços públicos de extensão rural durante a década de 1990

This article presents an historical overview of the processes of genesis, development, crisis and reforms in public agricultural extension throughout the 1990s, offering an overview of its main determinants, based on the literature on the subject. In this way, we analyzed the process of constitution of institutional apparatuses for the offering of extension services and linking policies technical modernization of agriculture worldwide during the postwar period, weaving considerations on the Brazilian case. The article also examines the aspects that determined the emergence of a crisis of public extension occurred during the 1980s, amid intensifying criticism of the Green Revolution model of agriculture. Finally, the article seeks to highlight the connections between the crisis and the reforms of privatization of public extension occurred in several countries during the 1990s guided the redesign of its institutional forms, forms of financing, its goals, its target audience, the working methodologies and technological matrix advocated

A Importância do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) nos territórios da cidadania dos Estados de Minas Gerais e da Bahia : Criação de novos mercados a partir da visão dos Agentes de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER)

This article aims to identify how the Foodstuff Acquisition Program has influenced market creation for family farmers in two Brazilian states - Minas Gerais e Bahia and also the limitations and benefits of the program from the point of view of the extension agents. A bibliographic research and a quantitative exploratory study were conducted, questionnaires were sent to extension agents who work for public rural extension agencies, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives and producers' associations, during the year 2010-2011.

Educação ambiental no contexto da extensão rural pública: a execução do programa de assessoria técnica, social e ambiental no núcleo operacional São Gabriel (RS)

O histórico de desigualdade no uso e posse das terras agricultáveis impulsionou o surgimento de políticas públicas de reforma agrária no Brasil. A principal dessas políticas, é a criação de assentamentos de reforma agrária, nos quais os assentados, além de receber um lote de terra para seu uso, são beneficiários de outras políticas públicas, entre estas, uma específica de Extensão Rural, o Programa de Assessoria Técnica, Social e Ambiental (ATES). Este programa traz em sua definição a incorporação do campo social da Educação Ambiental, colocando esta como uma atribuição dos técnicos contratados. No presente estudo, buscou-se esclarecer qual a forma que a Educação Ambiental vem sendo trabalhada no âmbito do programa de ATES, utilizando como referência as classificações descritas por Sauvé (2005) e Layrargues (2012), correntes e macrotendências, respectivamente. Para responder a essa questão, foram entrevistados membros da equipe técnica de ATES do Núcleo Operacional (NO) São Gabriel. As entrevistas foram analisadas através da metodologia intitulada Análise Textual Discursiva (ATD). As principais temáticas trabalhadas nesse sentido são o lixo doméstico, o lixo agrícola, a produção sustentável e outros assuntos que, de uma forma ou outra, estão relacionados à constituição de um ambiente. Observouse que as ações desenvolvidas pelos técnicos de ATES enquadram-se nas correntes conservacionista/recursista, biorregionalista, naturalista/recursista e naturalista, bem como apresentam aproximações, por razões diversas, com as três macrotendências existentes segundo Layrargues (2012). Também foi constatada a insatisfação dos técnicos com a forma insuficiente que a Educação Ambiental está colocada no Programa de ATES. Constatou-se também a existência de diferentes concepções sobre a categoria ambiente, as quais estão relacionadas com os fatores “histórico de vida” e “função desempenhada no âmbito do Programa”.

O currículo formal do primeiro ciclo do ensino básico e o mundo rural: um início à extensão rural ou uma breve “intenção rural”?

A presença num encontro científico sobre extensão rural, de um trabalho de investigação no âmbito do Ensino Básico poderá, para determinadas pessoas, parecer demasiado forçada, para outras uma surpresa e ainda para alguns, um facto que poderá, eventualmente, ser interessante. De facto, entre o mundo rural e o sistema formal de ensino, as conexões parecem não ter sido muito frequentes. Nem ao nível da escolaridade básica, nem no ensino secundário, sendo, muitas vezes, ligações virtuais ao nível de um ensino superior que, se preocupa, predominantemente com a componente tecnológica desse mundo rural, não prestando, muitas vezes, a devida e justa atenção à componente humana e social dessa realidade.