A construção social do mercado de sementes agroecológicas na Região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul e o papel do Estado.

Abstract

The research problem in this work tried to show in what extent the social institutions, among them the State, present in the southern of Rio Grande do Sul region's agrarian reform settlements, are influencing the agroecological seeds market configuration. Our aims are to demonstrate how agroecological seeds market was socially constructed by different actors and actions, in a particular rules context, where the State presents itself as an important actor in the construction of this specific market. In this work, we chose by the qualitative method to conduce the study steps, composed with a biography revision, a documental research and interviews with associated with Conaterra cooperative, located in Roça Nova settlement, in Candiota, a city in the south of Rio Grande do Sul. In this study, we tried to think about the agroecological seeds market's construction aspects in a theoretical approach based in the "new" economic sociology, particularly in authors as Neil Fligstein and Pierre Bourdieu, considering, in the other side, cooperative relations and power that involves actors and institutions in the specific markets formation. Thereby, by the collected data analysis and the theoretical concepts provided by theoretical and methodological studies based this work, we tried to show the southern Rio Grande do Sul agroecological seeds market social construction and the State's role in its constitution.