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The family farming

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in addition to being an organization
based on small farms,

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is a form of production,
it is a culture

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different from what we call
large agribusiness.

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We are therefore talking about
agricultural production

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on the basis of more shared ownership,
in a family job,

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and that carries a lot of diversified
experience in various regions of the country.

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We are talking about many populations

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which have historically been marginalized,
excluded.

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But this is a population
which over time has endured.

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resisted in many ways,

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with their cooperatives,
with their associations,

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with their organizations.

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“Hey! What\'s up, Theo?”

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“Shall we open the gate?”
\"Yeah!\"

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“Come on in.”

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\"Excuse me\"

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“-Theo, how are you? I\'m Bruno.
-How are you?”

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“-Alright! How are you?”

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Coomafitt is a cooperative
which today has 12 years of history,

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12 years of walking,

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and for me and most farmers,

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those who are part of Coomafitt,

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it is a great tool for social transformation,

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and transforming lives here in the countryside.

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The farmer organizes production,

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already know even before planting what will sell,

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when will sell
and the price he will receive for it.

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Here we have an average
of 60 fruit varieties.

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Banana, avocado, persimmon,

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mango, jackfruit, a little bit of everything, right?

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So this season
we are picking bananas,

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then take an amount to the market

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and the other for the cooperative.

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And the fruits are temporary, right, of the season,

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every season has a type of fruit,

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the whole year.

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The agroforestry system
improved in many ways here,

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we learned that it cannot burn,

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use chemical fertilizer, we are not using it.

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And helping the forest, right?

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like peanuts,

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this bush, here is the bush,

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we plant to protect the earth

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and fertilize the plants,

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to help with fertilization.

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At the time we had no value,

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I couldn\'t sell and when I sold
they didn\'t pay for the work of harvesting,

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like the banana situation.

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Then we formed the cooperative.

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And today with the cooperative
there is a lack of product,

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today we can produce even more.

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since I was little

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I always saw our parents working,

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in the fields we always saw the
difficulty they had in food production,

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in exploitation by the middleman.

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We see youth making a living now in agriculture,

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until me it was still complicated,

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we saw several young people leaving
and not returning,

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because the young person wants
a financial condition,

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and here, without this help,

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that nowadays Coomafitt supports us

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to collect our product and give a guarantee

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that we will be able to deliver
our product after we plant

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without that guarantee
we can\'t keep up.

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So, we started with this tourism
activity about three years ago

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together with the cooperative, Coomafitt,

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and with rural youth

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we decided that tourism would be
one of the best ways

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to grow and encourage this, the permanence of young
people in the countryside, different forms of income.

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On this trail we will arrive
on the other side of the property,

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we leave a point on the property,
of an entry,

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then we connect to the main entrance.

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During my 17 years,

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I was 17 years old, I can say that
I didn\'t know about family farming.

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And Coomafitt through work,
through the involvement of farmers,

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I noticed and realized
what my parents always did,

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what my mom and dad did
every day, and that I didn\'t understand.

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See what is family farming,
what is it really,

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and understand the identity that I had.

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Today I think the family farmer has dignity,

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and the farmer is proud of what he does

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and nothing fairer than that,
because not little what he produces.

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He is producing food,

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three times a day
people depend on the farmer.

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We have a rich experience

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of popular organization,

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of social organization,
in the Brazilian countryside.

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Movement Of The Landless is a great expression
of this struggle for land in our country.

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A dedicated, responsible organization,

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that has helped our country to overcome
important challenges.

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It has guided the struggle for agrarian reform
as central theme

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in the distribution of income
concentrated in this country,

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and encouraged governments to
assume their constitutional responsibility

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to carry out agrarian reform,

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which is the commandment of
the Brazilian constitution.

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We are here, more or less in the center

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where you have the one hundred
and few hectares of land

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which is specific for dairy cattle,

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and here, as it is more uneven,
we will do permanent planting.

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So these people here today are doing
a kind of collective effort

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to be able to plant the pioneer
here in the dairy cattle.

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I am the son of a small farmer, married,

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for nearly forty years.

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two children

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the two are integrated
to social movements.

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We\'re here.

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In 1984, 83,

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we start to discuss
the resumption of the struggle for land.

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Every type of latifundium we would occupy.

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With whom we were going to occupy:
with the son of a small farmer,

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with tenants,
with the young man who was in the countryside,

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who had no economic conditions
to buy their land, and will fight for the land.

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From January 85, when this decision was made
to occupy the latifundium,

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until May 25, 1985,

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in my region alone, there were 200 organized families.

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And we ended up staying
three and a half years under the tarp.

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I have a 31 year old son
who was born there, under the tarp,

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and today he is a graduate, postgraduate.

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\"Good afternoon.\"
\"Good afternoon, how are you?\"

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\"Let\'s just get this one out.\"

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“Smell it, it\'s different.”

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“Don\'t want to stay...”

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So, it is one of the best medicinal gardens in the city,

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that we have here,

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it\'s a very special garden,

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that many people come to visit
because it is very big,

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go over there near that water tank up there,

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so what you can think of teas and herbs

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you have here.

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Here is our dear school,
Building the Way.

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It\'s in the blood,
it is an essence of the community.

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We work a lot with children
for them to go to the construction site, help produce,

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and then when they are producing,

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go there and help harvest
and bring to school for food.

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Now at this moment they are doing the milking,
cleaning them,

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they will enter here, ten on one side, ten on the other,

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there are twenty cows per milking.

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\"Go Go!\"
\"Go!\"

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\"Go!\"

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\"C\'mon C\'mon!\"

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The largest production area, and production volume,

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of organic rice from Latin America,

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is carried out in agrarian reform settlements
by Movement of the Landless cooperatives.

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This is an expression of what true change is.

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A change in the lives of thousands of Brazilians

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who have come to be respected
and have quality of life,

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and also for rural youth,

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to recognize the existence of young people,
and young people who want to continue living,

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working and living fully
in their rural communities

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and who fight to have that opportunity
to continue working

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and producing food for the Brazilian people

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in their communities.

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Here and now, in these frames
where the tractors were working,

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are preparing for planting rice,

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then first pass the rotary,
to then flatten

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and then pass the blade,
that will make it very smooth

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and so, be planted.

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We\'ve been here in the settlement for 24 to 25 years,

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on the anniversary of the cooperative,

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but we started, at the conventional beginning,
with poison and all,

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and then at 4 or 5 years,

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6, 8 years of conventional planting,

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we opted for organic.

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So today it\'s been 15 or 16 years,

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that we are in the production of organic rice,

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and we are adapting
and getting better at it.

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There are 100 families in the settlement,

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and of those 100, 29 decided

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to organize into a cooperative.

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In the beginning there were more, there were 48,

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only that some thought it was not feasible,
they wanted to produce their lots by themselves,

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then they left and the others stayed,
the other families.

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Because here is a collective production process,
then the lot is divided,

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different from other families,
in which each plants their lot,

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they plant what they want, do what they want,
decide alone with the family.

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And in our case, no.
In our case, it is collective production.

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We are currently planting
around 250 hectares.

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In most of the area \"agulhinha\" rice is planted,

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which is what we usually know
and find it in the markets.

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So, here we have the swine area,
of pig farming,

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where there is the part of the creation,
and the slaughter, too.

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These are what we call matrices,
that are just reproducers.

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They give around 20 pigs at a time.

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According to my parents,
when I got here I was seven months old,

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when they were set here,

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but when the cooperative really started
I was already a year old.

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But I\'ve always lived here
and I have always been part of the collective work process.

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I knew that I was not going to work in agriculture,

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because it wasn\'t really my area,

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I didn\'t identify much
but I knew I would continue to live here.

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So when I decided to do the technician,

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I decided it to get a sense of the field,

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to work with the land.

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At the beginning of 2017, in March,
I graduated and I\'ve been here for two years,

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working internally in the cooperative,
in the office.

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Here we have the houses, which is the agrovila,

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where the settled families associated
with the cooperative are located.

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And the idea, from the time of the encampments,
was this format of houses in agrovila,

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which is a house next to another,
to help strengthen

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the collective coexistence and the collective work.

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We make food for the workers who

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work in the sectors, farming,
rice agro-industry, refrigerator,

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bakery, office,

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pigs and milk.

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We don\'t have a menu,

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the menu we set up the day before,
We\'ll think about it for the next day, right?

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Four and a half years camping,
and then 24 years here at the cooperative.

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we suffered a lot
in these four and a half years

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when we stayed at the camp.

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and arriving here the fight did not stop,
because you always have to fight, right?

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for education, health, roads...

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we keep fighting,
best product prices,

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organic products.

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The greatest achievement of recent years
was to give visibility,

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show, present,

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these millions of Brazilians,
men and women,

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in all parts of Brazil\'s territories.

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And they achieved a lot.

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They won the right to credit,

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technical assistance, knowledge,

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production, market access,

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therefore they conquered a set of public policies.

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So it is a rich experience in our country,

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that must be respected,
and that has to be appreciated.

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This part that you see, here,
has a part of rice,

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which is where people are harvesting,

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the organic rice that we have here,

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and this year we are going to change areas,
because you have to do the crop rotation.

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the collective work

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It\'s not that it\'s easier to live in the collective,
in socialism.

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It takes a lot more work
than living in capitalism,

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the function is much greater.

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because you have to, in socialism,
in cooperativism,

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you will have to create critical people,

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wise people,
people who have training and information,

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and that every day you have to be working.

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And all this has to plan.

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And you have to have a perspective on life, right?

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You have to dream.

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You have to, in addition to all the
political and ideological organization,

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you have to dream of a production

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to get where we are today.

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In recent years, for us,
the government has implemented several policies

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and took several actions that helped.

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The school lunch law

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that obliges schools

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to acquire at least 30%
of family farming products,

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this was a great help for us,

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because we also had a sales channel

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that we previously didn\'t have.

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we understand the field not only as a space,

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which is of production, but of experience,

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so we have access to several
other things too, to remain here,

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education is one of them.

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I have benefited from public schoolarships,

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which is a public policy
that allowed me to continue

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living in the countryside
and study close to my house.

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And this is very important because

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its knowledge that come and stay
in the countryside,

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and not just leaving here.

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Today it has improved a lot
for young people in agriculture,

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but my fear still

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is that we have a throwback of all this
that was good for agriculture.

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As I\'ve seen in the last year, the cuts

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so several families who needed

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and benefited from the project,

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because they distributed a lot of product too,

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they ended up losing products on the property,

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stopped selling.

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So fear, as a youth,

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is to have this setback
and having to go back to live in a city

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and give up this dream
which is family farming,

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and that today we are living.

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Here is our sports gym,

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where we do recreational activities

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for all associates and people who live
here in the community.

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The idea is to continue here, for sure.

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And further on,
as soon as i have conditions,

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build my little house
and continue living here

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and contributing to the cooperative
whenever I can.

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All this shows the wealth

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of a true democracy
that we want.

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With popular participation,

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with social dynamism,

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with true and real transformations

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of social inclusion of our people.