Soberania alimentar e digital no Brasil: a resistência dos Movimentos Sociais Populares

Abstract

The concentration of power in large corporations operating in agribusiness markets (Big Agro), food production (Big Food), and information technology (Big Tech), based on data extraction and algorithmic management of food systems, penetrates various spheres of life and the planet. These corporations appropriate fundamental rights and common goods, favoring the logic that produces hunger, inequality, and environmental destruction, while intensifying mechanisms of dependency and coloniality. Given this scenario, the objective of this research is to investigate how the popular struggle for food and digital sovereignty are articulated in resisting capitalist extraction and corporate control of the Earth, food, and knowledge. Following the methodology of Controversy Mapping, we conducted a mapping of the actors and arguments involved in this dispute, using the actions of social movements as a reference point for sovereignty advocacy. The landless workers' movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST) was selected as a trigger for the controversies due to its representativeness and influence in the national and international debate on food systems and dominant technical and scientific arrangements, as well as its capacity to connect and articulate resistance to various forms of coloniality. We highlight that the MST, along with other movements such as the homeless workers' movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST), are central agents in developing strategies and mobilizing struggles for sovereignty aligned with the principles of self-determination of peoples. The results of the mapping reveal that the actions of these movements go beyond fostering debate, because they create and connect mechanisms of resistance, proposing and implementing participatory productive systems and technologies that prioritize collective interests and encompass a greater diversity of ways of life.