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A dissertation from UFV’s Postgraduate Program in Agroecology is defended in a quilombola community and becomes the first off-campus defense

The master’s thesis entitled “Quilombola knowledge in the management of agroecosystems”, written by Nayara Cristina Pereira, a postgraduate student in Agroecology, was defended for the first time outside the campus of the Federal University of Viçosa. The location chosen for the study and also where the defense was held was the Quilombola Community of Coelhos, in Rio Pomba, Minas Gerais. The general aim of the study was to identify the diversity of species conserved by four quilombola families and to understand how traditional knowledge associated with management promotes species conservation. The research was supervised by Bianca Lima Costa, an associate professor in the Department of Rural Economy, and co-supervised by Irene Cardoso, a volunteer professor in the Department of Soils.

The board was made up of professors from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais – Rio Pomba Campus: Brauly Martins Rocha, Lucas Teixeira Ferrari, Carlos Miranda Carvalho; and from the Federal University of Viçosa: Marilda Teles Maracci, Irene Cardoso and Raphael Bragança Alves Fernandes (alternate). Under the chairmanship of the dissertation advisor, the defense followed the traditional rite, with the opening of the proceedings, presentation of the research, questioning by the board, response to the dissertation, and the presentation of the dissertation.