Agroecology, Rural Development and Society

Credits: 4

Program: Social construction of the market and family farming; economic analysis in agroecology and rural development; microeconomic theory of the firm and the consumer; supply and demand; different approaches to pricing; environmental economics and ecological economics; agrarian issue and public policies; alternative socio-technical networks and new relations of production and consumption in Brazil and in the international context; perceptions, representations and social actions developed in the context of public policies in Brazil; multifunctionality in rural development; peasant women and reproduction of domestic groups; forms of organization of rural women political representation; articulation between gender and peasantry.