Sacramento is one of the "gateways" of the Serra da Canastra National Park, located in the heart of this Biome Continental: the Cerrado. Recognized as the world's richest Savannah in biodiversity, it has several vegetal typologies with rich flora. Hundreds of species of Cerrado plants have been exploited for centuries by indigenous people, quilombolas and by colonizers as food, medicine, fodder, plants used in landscaping, apiculture pasture, construction material and raw material for handicrafts and for obtaining fiber, oil, tannin and other products. The fauna is rich. Here the ancestral know-how is doctor in harmony with nature, where the São Francisco River is born and cheese is an award-winning cultural heritage. Currently, the Cerrado Biome is home to the country's main agricultural expansion. These activities have already resulted in the elimination of a significant portion of the Biome's native vegetation cover and the fragmentation of most of its natural habitats. The actions of the public ministry through sanitary surveillance in the region go in the direction of fine many of those who have made their cheeses for a long time, or sell their chickens, eggs, eggs and pigs! Women are more sensitive to the evidence widely published in Briefs with warnings by the Brazilian Association of Public Health and the National Cancer Institute and Consumer Protection. Rede Brota Cerrado de Cultura e Agroecologia acentua the inscription of Dra Maria de Fajardo Archanjo Sampaio to compose the representation of this HLPE´s Call.
Maria F.A. Sampaio was born in São Paulo - SP, Brasil and she is graduated in Food Engineering (1994), with a Masters and PhD in Sustainable Rural Planning and Development by Feagri - UNICAMP (2001 and 2005). Concluded postdoctoral (2008) by the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences also by the State University of Campinas. She has published articles in periodicals, annals of scientific events, specialized journals and books, and also co-organized thematic groups in congresses bringing together national researchers (by the Brazilian Society of Sociology-SBS) and international researchers (by the Latin American Association of Rural Sociology - ALASRU) . Since 2006, it has widened the dialogue between its researches, seeking to express them through Art, as was the case of the documentary Caminhos da Cidadania on the Program of Acquisition of Foods from Family Agriculture - PAA in the semi-arid Northeast, sponsored by OXFAM and FNT Coalition (anexo 1). Since 2009, she has moved with her family to Sacramento in Minas Gerais, in order to take her researches from the drawer and put them into practice at Fazenda São Vicente and through works of Rural Extension and Cooperativism throughout the region of the Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba. As a member of the Association of Artisans and Artists of Sacramento-ASAA, as well as of the Cia de Teatro Movimento Cenica he formed the Group of Listening of the Body in Motion of Sacramento - MG (Technical Klauss Vianna - Educational process with Jussara Miller between 2007 and 2008) and the Socio-Environmental and Cultural CineClube of Sacramento. He has worked with traditional communities and quilombolas, including the folk dance of Engenho de Maromba. She was a proponent and art director for the Sacramento Culture and Agroecology Festivals (https://youtu.be/yttiXWewVXI 2012 and https://youtu.be/Zb3jGOpSUIc 2014). This cultural movement gave birth to Rede Brota Cerrado de Cultura e Agroecologia in 2012, Participativo Garantia System - SPG, whose OPAC was accredited in the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015. Associated with this organization since its inception, it has been contributing to the promotion of Organic Systems Socializing their experiences with the first Organic Mines Cheese of the Country (SISORG) and other works of Rural Extension and Cooperativism. She is currently representative of the Thematic Subcommittee on Organic Production of the Southeast Region in the National Commission of Agroecology. Anexo 2 included the Letter of Cerrado of the XI Congresso Latino Americano de Agroecologia X Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia e V Semiinario de Agroecologia do Distrito Federal e Entorno " Agroecologia na Transformação dos Sistemas Agroalimentares na América Latina: Memórias, Saberes e Caminhos para o Vem Viver assinada por mais de 5.000 pessoas ali reunidas, entre 12 e 15 de setembro de 2017 em Brasilia, DF, Brasil.
Maria de Fatima Fajardo Archanjo Sampaio