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The development of the agriculture to the food production in the urban and periurban areas has been redefining the space use providing transformation in the social relation, environmental and economic modifying the landscape and the production dynamics. The demand increase for the quality food has made possible the agricultural activity permanence in the urban areas. The lifestyle pointed out in the way to produce different beginning to be appreciated for developing a private production system and local specificity. In this perspective, it can happen horticultural cultivation in periurban areas in Santa Maria city (Rio Grande do Sul). The horticultural production is considered an entrance of income to the families because of weekly the products are sold in supermarkets, fairs and in the houses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents reflections that allow the understanding of the production of calabash in the city of Santa Maria (RS, Brazil). Thus, we aimed to recognize the role of family farmers who produce calabash and the different production processes that make up this chain. The research was organized into a set of methodological procedures. Initially, readings provided an understanding of the production, and then we focused on calabash production in the city of Santa Maria. Later, we undertook field visits to Arroio do Só, calabash producing area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study about development, reflected in the spatial distribution, from an institutional perspective, about the problems of imbalance that are evident through development indicators, focusing on the analysis of the influence of Pan American highway in the development of the department of Cauca. This highway produced changes in socioeconomic dynamics that favored a very small part of the territory, this is reflected in patterns of clustering were possible to specialize with socioeconomic indicators. With this established the degree of distance and marginalization of communities that living in the territory with reference to development processes from a spatial axis (Pan American highway). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the concepts of rupture and continuity proposed by Wanderley (2003), the aim of this work was identify which are the peasant elements that remain current in the social characterization of the poultry creators linked to Integration System in Anta Gorda/RS, despite his intense modernization. The conclusions we arrived were that modernization has generated a set of breaks, among which stand the loss of autonomy typical of the peasantry, the increasing of individualism and the farmer subordination of the industry. On the other hand, there is a set of characteristics that keep reproducing according to the tradition, even in the context of modernity: the centrality of the family, the valuation of the community, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The struggle for land is one of the processes inherent to the contradictions existing in the Brazilian agrarian matter, front of the inequalities arising from the capitalist development. Thus, this study aims to reveal how this struggle it is configured as an agent that can perform spatial transformations through of the territorial disputes, especially through the leadership of social movements like the Movement of Landless Workers (MST). It has therefore established as space - time the formation process of the settlement Conquista do Caiboaté in the municipality of São Gabriel, located in Rio Grande do Sul, in the period of 2003 to 2009. Adopts as theoretic-methodological assumptions the scientific and philosophical vision of all is in motion, in unity and contradiction, in transformation process, and with the use of distinct and additional procedures attempts to learn some elements that make up the essence of the multiple dimensions that exist in the process of reconstruction of rural areas from the struggle for land. Whose expressions are present mainly through repossession of the social agents, a process that has provided the economic-social, politic-ideological and symbolic-cultural reconstruction of the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Its distinguished the contribution of the 'Maison Familiales Rurales - MFRs' (France) and 'Casas Familiares Rurais - CFRs' (Brazil) to the young adults' lives and also the families who experience Pedagogy of Alternation's proposal. The aim is to discuss the subject formation in rural areas, in Brazil and France, on educational processes characterized by distinctive territorialities whether by historical-social and cultural peculiarities of each country in question or the necessities and possibilities imposed by the economic structure of such realities. In this qualitative research, interviews, observations in rural family houses of the two countries and bibliographical research were used. In France, the country of origin, there is a wide spectrum of formations with resources from both public ministries of agriculture and education. In Brazil, it is prioritized the agricultural formation and elements that produce real changes are identified since knowledge is thought and organized alongside with the actors/subjects who live in these rural areas, and is also based on their interests and their reality, usually with no government funding. It is perceived that the pedagogical process of the brazilian CFRs has efectivated many individual and collective transformations which converge to more active subjects on rural resistance movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents reflections that allow the understanding of the production chain of calabash in the city of Santa Maria (RS, Brazil). Thus, we aimed to recognize the role of family farmers who produce calabash and the different production processes that make up this chain. The research was organized into a set of methodological procedures. Initially, readings provided an understanding of the production chain, and then we focused on calabash production in the city of Santa Maria. Later, we undertook field visits to Arroio do Só, calabash producing area. Finally, based on the selected literature, we organized the data of that production chain. Despite its economic importance to the people involved, calabash has little or no visibility for the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we seek to discuss elements that characterize and that go back to a reflection on the curriculum and/or curriculum strategies for Geography in countries of the Southern Cone, as well as highlighting the relationship between the curriculum and teacher training. The text is characterized by being a theoretical review associated with perceptions and debates arising from the academic trajectories of the authors of this article. We show that some curricular structures of Geography in the five countries of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) are sometimes quite different, however, at other times, they are very close. We also emphasize that teacher training that allows knowing these different realities can be very promising and assist in solving teacher demands in schools, thus, we discuss teacher training as a point to be integrated among the countries of the Southern Cone. We conclude that thinking about curricular issues is central to contemporaneity, especially in the current context, marked by political, social and economic changes, so that the critical dimension of School Geography in the countries of the Southern Cone is not lost. In addition, we emphasize that the importance of the debate on teacher training for the issues that permeate the school curriculum, that is, it is not possible to think of a curriculum that falls short of teacher training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]