Avaliação da sustentabilidade de agricultores familiares em transição agroecológica no estado do Ceará: o uso do método IDEA

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Luiz Tiago Soares de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/44297
• topic: Sustentabilidade Agrícola; Agricultura Familiar; Agroecologia; Método IDEA; Transição Agroecológica

The agriculture of the present and for the future has as one of its main missions, besides the feeding of humanity, to be sustainable. In this sense Agroecology is a primordial tool as a science and practice to promote an agriculture that seeks the balance between production and conservation of natural resources, as it brings autonomy to producers. The objective of this work was to evaluate the agricultural sustainability between two groups of family farmers in the agroecological transition in the state of Ceará, located in the municipalities of Capistrano (Group 1) and Trairi (Group 2), these farmers are integrated into a social impact startup that assists in the promotion of waterflow ways for farmers in agroecological transition through fair trade, with Group 1 being a veteran and group 2 being a newcomer. Within this objective, we sought to investigate the follow hypothesis: "Farmers integrated to the dynamics of the company in the longest will have a better evaluation of agricultural sustainability than the newcomers" in order to try to estimate the company's impact on agroecosystems. Thirteen farmers were interviewed and evaluated, of which seven were from Group 1 and six from Group 2. The evaluation was done through the IDEA Method, which had part of its composition of indicators adapted to the context of study and State. After an individual evaluation, the results of each group were averaged and the statistical comparison was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test. The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the sustainability components of the two groups studied. However, when the components were aggregated in their respective axes, a significant statistical difference was found in the Economic axis (dimension), at a significance level of 10%. The Socio-territorial axis was shown as the most limiting dimension of sustainability in both groups.