21st century tomatoes: agricultural practices involving genetically modified organisms

• Grant number: 19/22987-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2020
• End date: April 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Joana Cabral de Oliveira
• Grantee: Joaquim Augusto de Araujo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In a global scenario in which the predominance of biotechnology increases dramatically over the years, the controversies surrounding the development of genetic engineering are equally lenghthened, characterizing the regimentation of data and theoretical contributions that are relevant to the theme as an urgent task of anthropology. This research has as its intent to understand and to make an ethnographic work about agricultural practices that take place on a farm in Indaiatuba, São Paulo's inland city, producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in order to comprehend the mechanisms engendered in the production process of these foods from a situated point. Expecting to contribute to the built of a scientific knowledge, as proposed by an anthropology of science focused increasingly on the suspension of the place of certainties and generalist solutions, this project aims to the understanding, from the ethnography process of multispecies, the relationship between genetic science, agricultural practices and the interlocutors in an empirical locus in which the cultivation of plantation based on biogenetics is present. (AU)