The project's team aims to prospect demands based on the diagnosis and characterization of the main agrarian systems in East São Paulo - especially those linked to Family Farming - towards the joint and participatory generation of knowledge, processes, innovations, methodologies and technologies, aiming at the redesign and the sustainable management of agroecosystems based on Agroecology rules. The East São Paulo region is formed by 90 cities within the Cerrados and Atlantic Rainforest biomes, where the Piracicaba and Mogi Guaçu river basins supply water to a contingent of more than 5.5 million people and with a family-based production that represents a significant portion of the local agricultural income.

Particularly, the work aims to promote knowledge and technology that strengthens agroecological transition, as well as the sustainable agricultural development of the territory in question, based on the demands that have been prospected and systematized by the project. There is the need to strengthen such processes, as there are several obstacles to and difficulties in knowledge building, organizational capacity, trade, methodologies and suitable technologies to make the consolidation of agroecological transition possible towards a more sustainable agriculture.
An important result was to articulate and strengthen the self-organization of the family farmers themselves in the sense of progress towards agroecological processes and production. This process is imbued with significant socioeconomic importance for this segment of farmers that have an expressive presence in said region, as well as for the territory and the rural and urban population as a whole.