SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SEMIARID: PEDAGOGY OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Agroecology is a set of techniques and concepts, aiming at the production of healthier food, based on an economically viable agriculture, ecologically sustainable, socially just and culturally appropriate. Combine low cost technologies to agroecology is a way to develop agriculture causing it to be less dependent and less costly for the farmer. Thus, the Demonstration Units Pedagogical Family Agriculture (UDPAF) are used in educational way to exchange, training and workshops, for allowing observations, experimentation and collective reflection. The objective of to the article is solidify and disseminate social technologies inexpensive and less dependent on the external system. Three social technologies alternative, geodesic and solar panels have been deployed in the tank UDPAF promoted by the Multidisciplinary Expert Advisory Group on Technology and Extension (AGEMTE), under contract with the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), with the Program Technical Assistance, Social and Environmental Agrarian Reform (ATES). The implementation process took place in accordance with the capabilities and characteristics of each of the units observing the production cycles, from household food security or interest group for surplus production aiming to generate income. The results showed that: the three technologies presented adapt to family farming have practicability and be inexpensive to implement; families involved will be replicating the theoretical and practical knowledge in the disclosure; that caused the change in behavior of the actors involved, causing interest in low cost social technologies.