The "social networks of resistance" originated by agroecological production and cooperative organization

Abstract

Given the conjuncture of contemporary Brazil’s capitalism which has as one of its basis the agricultural and agrarian structure designed for the country, where commodities production is a solid strategy for its maintenance. This article brings up for discussion a variety of experiences that take into account the maintenance of natural resources and livelihood in the countryside, in view of the harmful impacts on the environment and the population entailed by the current productive organization. In this perspective, with a view to promoting the use of the expression "resistance social networks", the paper, through documentary and bibliographic research that discuss the resistance built against the  agricultural model mentioned above and having as guideline the agroecological production model,  will fire up reflection on cooperative production flow structure. Added to this delimitation, the paper seeks to interconnect the relevant aspects of each reported resistance experience, and to identify the way in which their binding takes place. It is noticeable that the expansion of “resistance social networks” is crucial to the strengthening of actions that permeate the confluence of the debate on land ownership and  tenure and a design of a city-countryside alliance capable of accelerating the democratization of land and agroecological transition, in the face of neoliberalism.