In favor of a pesticide-free farming and against genetically modified seeds that
do not fall into line to its production system, farmers in the semiarid of Paraíba state
have prepared Community Seed Banks (BSC), which are part of a network called Seeds of
Passion. This network is based on ideals of agroecology, agricultural practice alternative
and sustainable ecological principles. The farmers who participate of this network
constantly advocate a peasant identity and traditional, in opposition to modernization
and capitalism. Therefore, thanks to the repetition of the need to effect the rescue of farmers
tradition, we have as central object to reflect about the speech of tradition rescue propagated by agroecological farmers, by technicians who work with them and by those who write about this reality, seeking
to understand, through an analysis of papers that deal with the experiences of the Seeds of Passion, what are the
conditions of existence of the invention of this tradition and what is the purpose of promoting such redemption in a
modern historical context. Finally, this tradition is not opposed to modernity and science, but it would be a way of
developing and implementing distinct knowledge of the dominant standard of rationality.
