The impact of a teaching garden on the local productive arrangement and the development of entrepreneurship

Abstract

Climate change, the reduction in food supply and the increase in the cost of means of production have been aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic and raise questions about effective methods to delay and modify the announced chaos. In 2020, according to the UN food security and nutrition report, more than 2.3 billion people (or 30% of the global population) did not have access to adequate food during the pandemic, this indicator is known as the prevalence of food insecurity moderate or severe. In Brazil, there are 33.1 million Brazilians in a situation of hunger according to 2022 data from the Brazilian Network for Research in Sovereignty and Food and Nutritional Security (Penssan), compared to 2018 (10.3 million), reveals that there are 22.8 million more people in this condition. Faced with the growing need for food, we have the challenge of developing techniques to make it accessible in production and acquisition by those who need it most, linking projects of local productive arrangements (APL) including the vulnerable population and young people who will enter the job market in developing sustainable awareness and entrepreneurial skills that guarantee their employability. This project research aims to propose the study of the impacts arising from the implementation of a pedagogical garden in the teaching of sustainable entrepreneurship in Technical courses Integrated into High School in a state technical school, located in the municipality of Ribeirão Pires, in addition to seeking to improve the quality of lunch offered at the school unit and community involvement in processes that enable the development of a family production system that is aligned with the sustainability objectives of the UN 2030 agenda.