Sustentabilidade e produção orgânica: fazenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida em Hidrolândia-GO

• Main Author: Sousa, André Chagas de
• Publication Date: 2018
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Download full: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8360
• topic: Agricultura orgânica; Agroecologia; Indicadores de sustentabilidade; Organic agriculture; Agroecology; Indicators of sustainability; ECONOMIAS AGRARIA E DOS RECURSOS NATURAIS::ECONOMIA AGRARIA

This research sought to understand sustainability in the process of certified organic production, by the means of the study of a property with such certification, instituted by Law 10.831 and audited by IBD. Using a multi-method analysis, which integrated SWOT strategic planning methodology and Marco de Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo Incorporando Indicadores de Sustentabilidad – MESMIS (Indicator-based Framework for Evaluation of Natural Resource Management. Systems), indicators were elaborated for the main organizational sectors of a well-established company in organic production: Marketing; Operations; Management Information System; Property Administration; Finance; and Human Resources. 31 indicators were worked out: 13 for the environmental dimension, 9 for the economic dimension, and 9 for the social dimension. They were measured by a semi-structured interview and questionnaires dealing with the following attributes: productivity, stability, resilience, and equity. The evaluation of the results served to identify the critical points and discuss them with the participants of the productive processes in the company. The MESMIS was essential to identify the indicators and allowed, besides measuring them, the possibility to describe them in a qualitative way. The method provides a participatory and interdisciplinary bias, as well as a systemic approach, integrating the attributes of sustainability and the environmental, economic and social dimensions, and, additionally, when applied in conjunction with the SWOT, it provides corrective measures to critical points. The results of the indicators of environmental dimension - 8.5, economic dimension - 7.7, and social dimension - 8.3 indicate that, with an aggregate value of 8.2, the property analyzed can be classified as "good" in relation to sustainability. On the other hand, results reached between the dimensions also display low average values. Indicators assessed as poor are: commercial product presentation - note 1,7 (economic); dependence on external resources - note 4,7 (economic); organic matter with origin in the property (%) - note 4,2 (ecological); diversity of alternative techniques - note 3,3 (ecological); satisfaction with public technical assistance - note 3,3 (social); persons occupied by ha (total of the productive unity) - note 5,0 (social); persons employed/ typical demanded days - note 6,0 (social). The research, in addition to its limitations, also demonstrated that the strategic analysis, starting from the SWOT Matrix, focusing on the organizational areas, and conducted by the MESMIS method, is an essential tool for the administrator to execute actions that improve the sustainability of the agroecosystem in which his/her venture is inserted.