Emancipation des communautés de l'agriculture familiale et sécurité alimentaire : L'exemple de la Mata Atlántica – Pernambouc – Brésil

Emancipation of family farming's communities and food security :Mata Sul's exemple - Pernambuc – Brazil The object of this communication is to point how a development program, based on territorial development, political construction and technical training of a poor community lay the foundations of a new agricultural, economic and social paradigm. We will present a field experience carried out with a Brazilian association (FASE), within the regional section of Pernambouc, based in Recife. Initially, I had to take a look at marketing of the agricultural production in a new light, by the presentation of the principles of the direct sales like Community Sustained Agriculture (CSA). We accompanied and observed directly the life of a group of poor farmers family, in a few kilometers of the littoral zone (Mata Atlantica) of the Area of Great Recife. The associative program which appears to be, at first sight, a traditional approach of exchange of know-how to new farming practices (agroecology) appears vaster, as one goes along the observations. The support to project has actually multiple springboard and the awaited results appear broader. The program aim is the financial and alimentary farmers autonomy, by the way of the agricultural technical training. The originality of the program is that the political training, for a hypothetical collective structuring, takes a predominant place. This last point is important, since then the general assumption of FASE is that the emancipation has like precondition of food safety, which can be guaranteed only by the capacity that have these populations to build a network (Network of the family agriculture of Mata Atlantica Sul), to build a speech, to defend their interests in way of political looking (agricultural, Solidarity-based Economy). The activities of association for the poor peoples emancipation and the autonomous and perennial family agriculture development are leaned on the pillars of the Solidarity-based Economy, recently institutionalized in Brazil. More broadly speaking, associations seem to be imposed like a great driving belt between the academic sphere, the political arena and the civil society. We will show finally that the durability of their work is sometimes affected by the impacts of the world financial system and can come to disrupt long and tiresome walk towards local development.