Abstract
This work is the result of the analysis of the Environmental Education and Family Agriculture Program (PEAAF), which was developed by the Ministry of Environment of Brazil from claims of rural workers movements. By examining a specific educational program, we seek to point out the modus operandi of the current Brazilian “democracy” and its relationship with the development model adopted, mainly based on intensive exploitation of natural resources. Claimed by the rural workers movements, the program quickly became operative for the current pattern of accumulation, especially when define a certain way of use the land and when subsume the concepts of “peasant agriculture” and “food sovereignty” to the concepts of “family farming” and “food security” by means of a “pedagogy of participation”. In this paper, we also seek to point out evidences that this educational model has been exported to Mozambique through international cooperation agreement called Prosavana.
