Agroecologia e produção orgânica: características que distinguem e/ou aproximam os sistemas de produção sustentáveis

Abstract

The article discusses technological changes in agriculture, with regard to their interactions with the environment, placing emphasis on the emergence of sustainable agriculture and on the concepts that support agroecological and organic production. With the technological advance of agricultural modernization in the countryside, agricultural social movements focused on sustainable agriculture started to gain spaces that did not exist before. Among the agricultural practices that consider natural ecological balances are agroecology and organic production. For this reflection, the work seeks to analyze which characteristics distinguish and which ones bring the systems of agroecological and organic production closer together. Based on a bibliographic survey, the contextualization and foundation of the text is developed. It is observed that agroecology can serve as a basis for organic production, however, one cannot make the mistake of confusing both, because the concept of agroecology considers it as a science, which arises from the search for theoretical bases, while production organic is considered a production system. Organic production has greater debates and public policies, driven by prospects for advancement at the market level. These practices have spread the concept of organic production, but the increase in the productive scale, as well as the focus only on replacing conventional agrochemical inputs with organic inputs, does not necessarily respect the principles defended by agroecology, and confusion about the correct use should be avoided each category.