“…In this sense, it is due to such recommendation of the MEC (BRASIL, 2008(BRASIL, , 2009(BRASIL, , 2012 and the relevance of these courses in the defense of a conception of science that values and gives visibility to the knowledge of rural people, that of the 44 LEdoCs in operation in the Brazilian Federal Network (LEAL, DIAS, and CAMARGO, 2019), 34 offer training in the areas of Natural Sciences or Life and Natural Sciences, Exact and Natural Sciences and combinations with Mathematics or with Agricultural Sciences (DALMOLIN, 2020). Of these 34 LEdoCs, 3 correspond to degrees in the area of "Natural Sciences and Mathematics" (BRASIL, 2022;MEDEIROS;AMORIM and CARVALHO, 2020), according to the National Register of Higher Education Courses and Institutionse-MEC 5 registry and the official portals of the institutions in question. But, only one of them, the LEdoC of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), is located in the Northeast region.…”