AGROECOLOGIA E GEOGRAFIA: A IMPORTÂNCIA DA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL A PARTIR DO LUGAR, EM UM AGROECOSSISTEMA NO POVOADO BARRA DA ININGA, MATÕES – MARANHÃO, ESTUDO DE CASO.

Abstract

The present work was carried out in the village of Barra da Ininga, rural area of the municipality of Matões - MA, seeking to contemplate the imminent need to understand the relations of economic activities through family farming carried out by the local population, specifically in this case, the members of the association of small local producers, highlighting the production of tomatoes in this environment, from the perspective of the analysis of the importance of environmental education from the place, which is conceived not as a locational factor, but as a category of spatial analysis of geographic science, due to great change in the vicinity, due to the approximation of agribusiness, a change in the form of production is necessary, where the activity carried out does not generate so many negative impacts, compromising and degrading the present agroecosystem. Thus Agroecology enters this approach providing awareness tools within the functionality of this present agroecosystem, as well as its integrative properties: productivity and sustainability. The elaboration of the study took place through bibliographic research in articles, books and periodicals under the theme elaborated, providing a theoretical contribution in the accomplishment of the study, and through fieldwork in locus between the months of November 2019 and January 2019. 2020. The article aims to approach the contribution of Agroecology, Geography and Environmental Education to the construction of positive behaviors in the way of producing. Therefore, the study found that it is possible to align local knowledge and production techniques that respect the environment, even if it is necessary to use a minimum of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, etc. characteristic of modern agriculture. Thus, a change in the patterns or forms of production patterns is essentially the result of a change in values and attitudes aimed at building responsibility and positive behaviors for a more just and egalitarian society.