Authors:
Joana Tereza Vaz de Moura (UFRN)
Marcos Aurélio Freire da Silva Junior (UFRN)
Abstract: The Permanent Campaign Against Pesticides and for Life was created in 2011 from the articulation of different organizations that defend environmental issues, family farming, food and nutrition security and collective health, forming a polycentric network that seeks contributions to the approval of the National Policy for the Reduction of Pesticides. Through the narratives of the coordinators and representatives of this network, the article seeks to understand what arguments are used so that interests coincide and demands are taken into account on the political stage. To this end, we considered the stories presented in social networks, interviews, newspapers, magazines and on the Campaign's website. The results revealed that these actors made a strategic choice for a narrative that associates agrotoxins with diseases that lead to death, and for agroecology as an alternative system, expanding the network in the country by including various segments that defend healthy food and life.
Source: Raízes Social and Economic Sciences Magazine, 43(1), 171-189.
Link: https://raizes.revistas.ufcg.edu.br/index.php/raizes/article/view/812
