Alternative food networks have emerged in recent decades as a bottom-up social phenomenon and consist of food provision initiatives that seek to operate outside globalized industrial supply chains that incorporate the values of social justice, environmental sustainability, community health and democracy. In this sense, the present study aimed to analyze the contributions that the virtual agroecological fair action plan between family farming and federal institutions in the state of Goiás-Brazil brought to family farmers. The methodology is characterized by an action research both by the character of the collaborative construction action plan of an agroecological fair, and by the structure of development in which the insertion of authors is guided by the permanent collection of elements of the practice and, also, for the development of small interventions that help to elucidate the problems detected, through problematization and theoretical deepening. The Virtual Agroecological Interinstitutional Fair is held in an interinstitutional and collaborative way with family farmers with the appreciation of family farming of ecological Goiás basis and culminates in a path that enhances more sustainable territorial development with income generation, weaves an alternative for food supply and the promotion of the alternative food network “from the countryside to the city” in the face of socio-environmental rationality, in addition to a fairer and more equitable society, with the enhancement of biodiversity and the offer of food produced in the face of ecological practices.

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Artisanal fishing, considered a millenary activity, suffers with deep transformations in the face of coastal developments. Factors that constitute the environmental vulnerability of artisanal fishermen from the "economic development". This being said, this study aims to understand environmental racism in fishing territory, especially the Ilha de Maré, located in Salvador -BA/BR. The resistance and the defense of a Healthy and Sustainable Territory (TSS) for the preservation of its natural resources were important elements brought about in this process. The method was based on action research and popular education. The methodological path was based on meetings between researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the community, in order to capture the perception of the residents of the Island about health, environment and work, given the impact of the Industrial Complex and the Port of Aratu. As a result, it was observed that environmental racism affects not only the natural environment, but also the living, health and working conditions of the fishing population. Thus, the need for organization and mobilization of the people involved in the search for social rights, improvement of health and work conditions, preservation, demarcation of fishing territories and the fight against environmental racism.

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The Courses of Agrarian Sciences have been losing their original characteristics through the pasting years, especially after the WWII, under the influence of the ‘green revolution’ over agriculture practices worldwide, increasing productivity to address the hunger extinction. The productivity has been significantly increased since that. However, the hunger remains a huge concern across the world. This model also generated several social and environmental negative externalities. Some of reasons for these results are well-known. The agri-food systems were captured by few international corporations, who control the entire the food chains from the farms to the supermarkets shelves. Therefore, the courses of agrarian sciences are being realigned to prepare professionals to work only for these sectors of agriculture. Furthermore, these conglomerates are guided by the international commodity markets, undermining the local markets of food production and distribution. Notwithstanding, with the arise of agroecology movements, this model has been strongly questioned both inside the educational institutions and across the society. In this context, some universities launched courses with agroecological approaches, whose UNEMAT, in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso, is one case, where the bachelor’s degree in agronomy incorporated not only the agroecological approach, but also an interdisciplinary teaching. That is the experience that this article is about. It includes an analysis of the historical, pedagogical and political aspects that influenced the course design, from its conception until its collapse. The lessons learned offer insights to how being more successful in designing new courses of agrarian sciences based on interdisciplinary and agroecological approaches.