Fostering sustainability in Brazilian agrarian reform: insights from assentamentos and ecovillagesMain Menu0 | Executive Summary1 | Introduction2 | Research design and methods2.1 | Selecting our cases2.2 | Collecting the data2.3 | Analyzing the data2.4 | A Visual Story of Our Journey3 | Brazilian agrarian reform: historical developments3.1 | The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)3.2 | Assentamentos: Rural Settlements of Brazilian Agrarian Reform3.3 | Public policies for agrarian reform in Brazil3.4 | Phases of an assentamento’s history: how does an agrarian reform settlement come to be?3.4.1 | Phases of Assentamento: Grassroot Engagement3.4.2 | Phases of Assentamento: Occupation and Encampment3.4.3 | Phases of Assentamento: Establishment3.4.4 | Phases of Assentamento: Maintenance3.5 | Ecovillages: a source of insights for sustainability in small rural communities3.6 | Synthesis: assentamentos and ecovillages side-by-side4 | Analyzing sustainability challenges in assentamentos4.1 | Moving towards sustainable production4.2 | Building infrastructure for sustainability4.3 | Creating attractive conditions for the youth5 | Two domains for the design of solutions to sustainability challenges in assentamentos5.1 | Access, use and dissemination of sustainability know-how5.2 | Enabling cooperative collective dynamics through conflict resolution6 | Insights to address sustainability in assentamentos6.1 | The power of example can be an effective means for the transition to more sustainable practices6.2 | Building a common vision among assentados can support the maintenance of cooperative collective dynamics6.3 | More room for experimentation can strengthen sustainability know-how6.4 | Collective initiatives can prevent isolation in rural communities by acting as touchpoints with the external world and bringing exchange opportunities for assentados7 | Closing RemarksLIST OF TEXTUAL REFERENCES (PAPERS. BOOKS, LEGISLATION)INTERVIEWS | Complete videosCOMMUNITIES | Materials availableAUTHORS | Basic InfoOndab86d8b9ff51cdbb9a292b5a3d9ea13e8fba7795a
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12016-03-18T05:58:42-07:00Ondab86d8b9ff51cdbb9a292b5a3d9ea13e8fba7795a88641"Barbara: Not consensus, consentimiento in Spanish. This means, when you have a decision for example, first you make and everyone can express everything, every emotion they have, everything, you can express it. But it doesn't influence a decision. So you can say 'hey, I don't want it because it makes me crazy', it's important to say it. But then, you see which other things that are expressed is really against the vision of the community. So first you have to create what is a vision, what is... so you have to know why the community is for it. And then you only have to decide if something is really against the vision, against (incomprehensible) structure, and only objections that have these criteria are accepted. And the emotional 'no, I don't want it because I'm afraid of something', this doesn't count anymore, it's good to express it, but for example fear is not a reason to be against a proposal. Because fear comes out of the past, and it's not part of the future, so... there are very interesting thoughts, what is valid to make a 'no' or a veto, and what is not. So this helps a little to understand more, not to use so easily 'no, I don't it' or veto against the proposal. And there's a facilitator that decides this. And really cuts you when you this things. So it's a little more strict. And we are not so good, until now, we are still training this. In the big plenaries we don't use it completely, we still have a... but in some decisions we already trained this part, of learning what is really an objection that is valid and that is good to express it. So it's like a structure, it has much more implications than this, but it's like a structure where you learn to decide more for the group and not out of the individual thinking. "plain2016-03-18T05:58:42-07:00Ondab86d8b9ff51cdbb9a292b5a3d9ea13e8fba7795a