SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: AGROECOLOGY ALLIED TO FOOD SECURITY

The subproject Architects of Saber, Federal University of Santa Maria, was developed from a proposal magna CAPES - New Talents Project, reaching target audience is students of the State School of Elementary Education Dr. Honorato de Souza Santos, located in town Step d 'Sand, peri-urban area of the municipality of Cachoeira do Sul / RS, Brazil. At school worked three axes are calling themselves Agroecology, Environmental Education and Citizenship, and the actual experience lived and assisted on Axis Agroecology. This axis aims to establish a harmonious relationship between children and nature, making them reflect and learn in practice it is possible to obtain food through natural resources without degradation thereof. The activities conducted at the school involve workshops, explanations to students on topics such as natural soil cover and its importance consortium of plants in a particular place and its purpose, deployment garden and Agroforestry Systems (AFS) in the school environment and its contribution for sustainability and food security. The results are relevant because there is the interaction of students with the proposed activities, and have the experience, for example, they are reaping the vegetable garden itself (suspended - vertical and horizontal) vegetables and legumes to your diet.