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The history of humanity

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is the history of the relationship
of human beings with nature.

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During all these millions of years

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we use our intelligence
to transform the goods of nature

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in useful goods
that we need to survive,

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and then we go in nature to look for the solution.

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It happens that, after humanity
joined capitalism,

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capitalism has appropriated nature privately.

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We have to have
another relationship with nature,

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because the essence
of the social function of agriculture,

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in human history,

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is to produce food.

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That is, to produce that energy
that all human beings need

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to survive.

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Pietro, will you take them for us?

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Let\'s go through here, shall we?

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So at this moment
the animals will be led to the field,

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and a picket where they will be receiving
natural pasture.

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we are in a settlement
in the interior of Sïo Miguel Do Oeste,

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by the name October 26,

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is the date on which this farm was conquered.

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In this settlement
there are 30 families settled,

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and in this place here, it is a collective area
of the Perche family.

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So since 1985,
when this area was conquered,

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the family already in the camp organized

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this idea of ??making this collective society.

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And today the main activity
of the Perche family collective

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is milk production.

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When the Landless Movement emerged,

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that we also helped to found the movement, in 1984,

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and then I was already participating as a leader,

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municipal and regional leadership,

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and we helped to articulate,
do the occupations,

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we went to the occupation, I with her,
and two children.

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And until 85 we kept rolling,
back and forth,

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until October, and then we were settled.

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In this settlement that we are,
until today, right?

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One of the things we look at at the regional level

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is the area limitation,

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we have little land,

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for the 16 families integrated in the production
we have 36 hectares of land.

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But it\'s enough for us to live,
and live well.

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Farming is all collective,

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the function of the crop is to produce food
for dairy cattle,

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we have everything collective.

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we remember

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all the steps we took.

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Make the first occupation,

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with two children
and one more in Ivone\'s belly, right?

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and she went along with this occupation process.

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We stayed in canvas tents for a period of six months.

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It was suffered, so we don\'t forget,

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that little stove with the cooking plate,

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making the cookies that we shared
with all the people in the camp,

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it was very cool. An interesting experience,

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that was suffered, but that\'s what was left for us,
to think about a better future.

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The agricultural mechanization,

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the workers who help us
making the machines there in the factories,

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they are part of this process

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to improve the productivity of human work with nature,

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and lessen personal sacrifice.

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We need to build farm machines
suitable for family farming,

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suitable for the peasant.

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So the agroindustry for us is essential.

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It is, let\'s say, the need for you to apply
technological and scientific development

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on the raw materials of agriculture

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and make this beneficiation process,

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of product processing

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be for the benefit of workers.

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We\'ve been four and a half years
in this struggle for land.

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And in 93 we conquered
this area here and we were set.

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From then on, we organized ourselves to produce, to survive.

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In 95 the cooperative was officially founded,

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from there they started with rice farming,

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and then with a small
rice agroindustry, too.

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So from 2002, 2003,

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That\'s when we started the rice agro-industry.

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So here we are in the room
which we call the balance room,

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where we have a scale to weigh
the product that comes from the crop, rice,

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here only organic rice comes in.

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Where do we unload this truck,

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of this product, it passes through the sieves,

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and we will now see what the process is

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that the rice travels through
until it reaches the package.

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This is where we call the packing room,

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there are two machines,

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one that makes rice in a vacuum,
which is vacuum packed,

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and the other that makes a normal package,
that we can find anywhere.

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I\'ve been here since the beginning of the settlement,
It\'s been 20-something years.

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In the beginning we planted
and delivered the product to a third party,

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then we realized that

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the hardest work, the most difficult,
we were the ones doing it.

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If the guy who took the grain
and he only had the job of selling to make money,

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why couldn\'t we do it?

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Of course, there are difficulties.

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but today we practically do
the entire rice chain,

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because we plant rice, harvest,

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we bring to the industry,
we benefit, until the commercialization,

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so in that you start to value your work.

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Currently I work in the office,

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I\'m part of the management

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on planning issues,

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monitoring this plan.

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Well, I participated since I was little, right,
I always participated in the activities they had.

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The Movement of the Landless is also a big family,

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who always looked for the best
for the poorest populations,

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and always sought to enable
settlements after they have already been consolidated.

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Its a process of constant political and social awareness.

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For example, why do my parents have what they have today?

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Where did they get it from,
from what?

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So knowing that they achieved this as part of the movement, the Movement of the Landless

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and also always fight
for improvements for people.

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in the solidarity economy

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the fundamental thing is that that surplus,
or, added value,

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which in capitalism is privately appropriated

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by a single boss,

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in the case of the solidarity economy,

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it is redistributed to all workers
that somehow,

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in that cooperative act,

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contributed to the production
of this surplus wealth

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beyond what they needed.

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Hence our agroindustry
also transforms

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into a new type of cooperative agro-industry.

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Although they are in a division of labor,
between them,

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all are members of the same cooperative,

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and therefore appropriate that extra value

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generated by the agroindustry process.

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We were the beginning of the industrialization
of products, which was milk.

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We challenged ourselves to do

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this process that the Central Cooperative
for Agrarian Reform was proposing.

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For us to give support to the settled families

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not to happen to them
what happened to the other families,

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to produce and deliver to other companies abroad.

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And it only expanded, its 23 years actually
that we are with this industry,

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Cooperoeste started in 1989.

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And today Cooperoeste sells to five states,

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its already going to the sixth state

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that is selling the products
produced by the families settled

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and also by small farmers
who also joined the cooperative.

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At this moment the loading and unloading operator
will do the collection

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of a sample
from each tank compartment

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to go to the physical-chemical laboratory to do the analysis

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to see if everything is ok
to discharge the milk.

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So we will be entering
inside the factory,

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passing through the sanitary barrier
and entering the bottling room.

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There is a machine that will only fill,

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do bottom weld,

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put the product inside,

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and butt weld.

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Cooperoeste today makes
around 9 million liters per month,

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around 300 liters of milk per day.

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What makes Cooperoeste an important tool for the associate

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is that we see
in the projects of large companies

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the exclusion of the small producer,
the exclusion of the settler,

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and Cooperoeste came with the discussion

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to help the small producer,
so that our associate, seated,

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continued in the settlement producing.

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So I think these are things that differentiate

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the cooperative of a traditional company.

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It\'s only worth having land to work

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if you use your work and the land

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to produce food,

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and healthy food, for all the people,

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in this case, the Brazilian people.

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And this new look is what we call agroecology.

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In other words, producing in partnership with nature,

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so that food production as is done by agribusiness

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does not represent the destruction of biodiversity,

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which is what they do
with intensive use of poisons

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and with the introduction of monoculture of a single plant,

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just to make a profit.

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This one is an umÉ foot,

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which is that little Japanese plum,

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which is very difficult to produce in Brazil

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and this foot here is pretty cool because
it produces plums every year.

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In the back, do you see a tractor there?

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which is loading
bagged chicken manure.

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Because here, the chicken manure goes to earth,

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and there we produce more than 60 varieties
of vegetables and products,

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including the corn that feeds the chicken,

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so it\'s a system that makes a recycling of nutrients.

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Let\'s see them harvesting?

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I have been a resident of Yamaguishi village since 1988

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and I work here with agroecology,
with the creation of organic chickens.

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We were a group of students

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more in the agricultural area at the University of Londrina,

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and we are all children of farmers,

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and we had a desire to make agriculture healthier.

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And then, researching various things,
we found out

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a system of communities that there was in Japan,

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then we got an agreement

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and funding to do an internship there, in 1986,

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and we returned to Brazil in 88
already with the idea of ??forming a village,

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today called an ecovillage,
but that term was not used at the time,

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we called it just village.

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So this whole area here is the area
for the chickens to loiter all day,

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and they come in whenever they want,
leave whenever they want

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so this here was built
thinking about the chicken\'s natural habitat,

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having an environment for them to exercise
their natural behaviors.

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The Paladar Magazine
held an egg contest in Brazil,

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called several chefs
and ours won, it was the first

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then it became well known,

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the tastiest egg,

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but in terms of work
and space occupation, the vegetable garden is bigger.

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Agroecology is not about monocultures,

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monoculture is agribusiness,
those immense areas of corn and soybeans,

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and in agroecology diversity is highlighted a lot.

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And it\'s an interesting thing that
the more diverse your production system,

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the easier it is for you to produce agroecologically.

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Okay, so now we\'ll see there

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the part where the vegetables are prepared after they are harvested.

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They are prepared to go to deliveries
that we do daily.

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We realize that in society today there is a distance

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very big between
the urban environment and the rural environment.

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People who live in the city

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are unaware of the processes
of food production,

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we receive visitors
and there are always a lot of children here,

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and there are children who come here,

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see the chicken and only know the chicken
in the fridge, inside the plastic bag.

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So our role within the planet,

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we consider it very important,

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to produce food
that will bring health to the system.

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So what does the solidarity economy
teach us?

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That we don\'t have to wait

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a long-awaited social revolution.

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We can right away, here and now,

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build in our territories,

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whether in the city or in the countryside,

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experiences that bring together
the workers

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for them to produce or distribute
riches and services

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without exploitation and inequality.