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Management of natural resources in protected areas Interinstitutional dialogue, social capital, and agency in the transition to agroecological systems1 1 This article was written as part of research I carried out as a Queen Elizabeth Scholar (qes) at the University of York, Canada, with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Center for Research in International Development, Canada. I would like to thank Dr. Ellie Perkins, from the University of York and coordinator of qes, for the important support and valuable comments to the work. To Dr. Marcos Sorrentino, coordinator of the Environmental Education and Policy Laboratory (oca), in the Department of Forestry Sciences at the Superior School of Agriculture at the University of São Paulo, Esalq-usp, I want to thank for his encouragement and constant willingness to contribute in an always positive and creative way to the search. To Anna Fridha Santos Ott, Maria Clara Cruz Moura, and Ivo Ferraz Racca, students at Esalq-usp, I would like to thank for their important contribution to the field research in the Guapiruvu Community. To the residents of the Guapiruvu Community, especially Mr Gilberto Ohta and Mr. Geraldo Xavier de Oliveira, I am grateful for their hospitality and solicitude in the various visits we made to the community.

Gestão de recursos naturais em áreas protegidas: diálogo interinstitucional, capital social e agência na transição para sistemas agroecológicos

Abstract

This article analyses the processes of participation and integration of groups living in and around protected areas, in efforts to convert conventional methods of agricultural production into agroecologically sustainable practices. Taking as a case study a community located in the buffer zone of a large conservation unit, and part of the main contiguous remaining areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, this work focuses on the articulation among multiple existing elements in this area: an agroecological settlement, different levels of governance, internal social differentiation and classification systems, community agency, antagonistic visions of development, and their effects on community development practices. It also examines the external connections that the community establishes, acting as an instrument of compliance and reproduction of the dominant agrifood regime, and contributing to the formation and strengthening of an alternative short circuit of production and commercialization network, integrating local family producers to the consumers in large urban centres.

Keywords:
Agroecological transition; Protected areas; Local development; Multilevel governance.

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