Municipal councils for sustainable development and their relationship with agroecology

Abstract

This article discusses the institutionalization of Municipal Sustainable Development Councils and their relationship with the emergence of agroecology in family farming, taking as a cut the approach to the theme in the State of Bahia and specifically in the municipality of Jaguarari. The sources of evidence for data collection were based on a bibliographic and documental review, as well as an approach by the qualitative method. For its elaboration, it was necessary to go through routes of consultations and detailed readings that endorsed that the mobilizations and popular social struggles in Brazil were the way to arrive at institutionalized councils as spaces for decisions taken before exclusively within the scope of the Public Power. Another aspect of the article that is intertwined with the achievements of participation of collegiate decisions in the municipalities and in the sphere of family agriculture is the recognition of agroecology as a relevant support for the structuring and organization of an alternative form of democratic society, environmentally sustainable and responsible for the current and future generations.