Extensão Rural

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Authors: Rogério Oliveira Pinheiro, Gisele Martins Guimarães

The present work presents the pedagogical use of Network Educational Technologies (TER), more specifically video, as mediator of the teaching-learning of Agroecological Sciences. The results of a research carried out using questionnaires, with 30 students of Agrarian Sciences (Agronomy, Veterinary Medicine, Zootechnics and Post Graduation in Rural Extension) of the Federal University of Santa Maria-Rs/Brazil, perceptions about the functionality of audiovisual in teaching-learning. The perceptions point to the acceptance of the audiovisual as an important mediator of teaching, as it is a tool capable of giving visibility to local and regional experiences, allowing, even if virtually, exchanges of knowledge and experiences, since the senses remain stimulated through sound, images in shared movements and emotions. The results still point to the need to revise teaching practices and the epistemological bases where the Agricultural Sciences are anchored, since contemporaneity requires new positions for the formation of professionals capable of contributing to Sustainable Development, based on social equity, traditional knowledge, ecosystem equilibrium and the autonomy of subjects.

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Authors: João Carlos Costa Gomes, Luiz Augusto Ferreira Verona, José Ernani Schwengber, Gustavo Crizel Gomes

It is reported a building experiment on the evaluation of knowledge of agro-ecosystems’ sustainability in Southern region of Rio Grande do Sul, using the theoretical framework ‘MESMIS’ – Frame for the Evaluation of Management Systems for Natural Resources, incorporating sustainability indicators through the application of the theoretical frame to the local reality. It was developed a practical-theoretical course for a multidisciplinary group with an empirical application of the methodological proposal as a participatory way with four families in four different agro-ecosystems. Some common points were identified in the studied agro-ecosystems: three of them showed problems related to the water, fundamental and transversal theme of the multiple dimensions of sustainability, affecting life quality, health, environment and viability of the agroecosystem. The dependency on external inputs, mainly for ecological based production systems and for succession on the families exploring agriculture, also emerged as critical points to the regional family farming.

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Authors: Daniela Aparecida Pacífico

Inserted in the perspective known as approach by the instruments, Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Galès present an approach that contributes to think the territorialization of public policies. The approach considers that the processes of implementation of public policies produce local systems of public action. Such local systems can be apprehended from four dimensions: translation and appropriation; the public; the mobilization of actors; and the dimension of time and place. This paper presents and discusses this proposal and applies this analytical framework to the case of the Brazil Without Rural Poverty Plan (BSM-Rural). The aim is to analyze if the local systems produced by the implementation process constitute the sociotechnical networks existing in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. The data presented in this paper are based on document analysis and field research, in which semi-structured interviews and participant observation were carried out. The work is divided into five sections. The first one introduces the theme; the following section discusses the analytical proposal of Lascoumes and Le Galès; the third briefly presents the BSM-Rural; the fourth examines this program in the light of the analytical framework; finally, some final considerations are made. It is concluded that the local systems constitute the existing socio-technical networks and that each of them mainly mobilizes different translations and appropriations of BSM-Rural, making possible adjustments and creation of own rules of application configuring particularities to the territorialization of the public action.