@article{Filho:341231,
      recid = {341231},
      author = {Filho, Antonio Carlos Mendes Parra and Norder, Luiz  Antonio Cabello  and Jovchelevich, Pedro  and Kinjo, Sakae  },
      title = {A Convencionalização na Produção de Sementes na  Agricultura Orgânica Brasileira},
      journal = {Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR)},
      address = {2018-01},
      number = {2541-2024-1518},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {The growth of organic production in many countries is  associated with the adoption, by farmers, of practices,  technologies and organizational and commercial categories  present in conventional agriculture. This has led to an  international debate on the theory of the  conventionalization of organic agriculture. However, the  use in organic agriculture of seeds and propagating  material containing agrochemicals is not enough mentioned  and studied as part of this process. Therefore, this  article analyzes the use of conventional seeds as an  expression of the conventionalization of a portion of  organic agriculture. For that, it presents a  characterization of the debate on conventionalization and  the Brazilian regulation on organic seed production; in  addition, it describes and analyzes initiatives of private  companies, government agencies and third sector  organizations aiming the production of organic seeds for  the formal market. The methodology includes checking  scientific articles, document analysis and interviews. The  results of the research demonstrate the complexity and  contradictions of the use of conventional seeds in organic  agriculture and the importance of family farm organizations  identified with the agroecological movement and farmers  associated to the “pioneering” movements of organic farming  in the creation of new supply channels for organic seeds.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/341231},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.341231},
}