groecology, ICTs and Social Technologies: a case study of the “Cestas Cooperflora” marketing app from the Milton Santos settlement in Americana (São Paulo, Brazil)

Abstract

Faced with the hegemonic agri-food system that characterizes Brazil as a landowner, monoculture country and agro-exporter of agricultural commodities, family farming has been severely compromised in its productive capacity by deficient rural technical assistance and guided by the interests of Brazilian agribusiness, with the discontinuity of government programs and public policies on food and nutrition sovereignty and security and sustainable rural development. Another element is the orientation of the State's scientific and technological policy, oriented to sustain the "agro-tech" sector throughout the production chain from research and development, obstructing political and executive links that allow the establishment of socio-technical networks for the inclusion of groups. in continuous vulnerability in the technical-technological circuit. The goal of this work is to present the experience of developing a social technology implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic through a socio-technical network constituted by the State through the Nucleus of Studies in Agroecology, Education and Society of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo in the land reform territory of the Milton Santos Settlement, Americana/SP. The results show that technology has dynamized the social market for the flow of production in the territory and strengthened the short-circuit commercialization model, while contributing to the socio-technical citizenship and social inclusion of female farmers who benefit from this process.