Youth and associativism – case study of the UnB Youth agrarian residency project of the MCTI/MDA-INCRA/CNPQ Nº 19/2014 notice

Abstract

In  this work we  will  focus  on  the Young  Agrarian Residence  Project  in  response to the  Public  Notice launched  by  the partnership between the National Youth Secretariat (SNJ), the  National  Institute  for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) and the National  Council for Scientific and Technological Development  (CNPQ). We consider taking  on  the  challenge of  awakening the role of  Peasant Youth  with exercises of reflection and qualified  understanding of knowledge  relevant to life in  its  most varied  spaces,  such as in the family, at work, in organizations, in schools, in youth groups, in social movements. and how the common needs and demands of young people are addressed in these spaces, in a context of poverty, inequality and exclusion. We delve deeper into themes of Agrarian Reform, Food Autonomy and Sovereignty, Collective Subjects of Rights in Participatory and Cooperative Movements in the Conquest and Guarantee of Their Rights, seeking respect for Ecosystems, Knowledge and reproduction of Life to the detriment of market appeals. The collective was organized into 4 NT (Territorial Nuclei). Theoretical frameworks such as Conceptions of State and Rural Social Movements, Solidarity Socioeconomy, Solidarity Economic Enterprises were presented to follow up with surveys of common needs and simulations of construction of collective work. The Project provided interventions according to the needs of each young person's place of residence. With community garden practices with agroecological management, popular cineclubism and Associativism and cooperativism. We conclude that the UnB Agricultural Residency Project made it possible to occupy political, training and organizational spaces in the communities served, providing rural youth with a level of elevation in training and political awareness.