Productive network of family organic agriculture: community strategy for sustainable agricultural development

Abstract

Agricultural production systems dependent on the intensive use of agrochemicals and inappropriate agricultural practices have caused serious problems of water pollution, desertification, soil impoverishment and other environmental difficulties, with harmful effects on human and animal health. Some peasant communities, aware of this reality, have undertaken initiatives to promote alternative production systems, based on agroecological practices and, especially, organic family farming. In this sense, the creation of Socialist Networks of Productive Innovation (RSIP) has been a strategy proposed by the Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology and Innovation (MPPCTI) to agricultural communities in the different states of the country, through its Territorial Units (Fundacite), in order to promote improvements in productive systems under a sustainable agriculture approach and through appropriate technical support processes.