Análise da sustentabilidade da agricultura familiar: o caso do assentamento 1º de setembro no município de Tauá - Ceará

Abstract

In the developed countries, the immense prosperity of foods and fibers prodution is coming from the family units of production. The family agriculture in those nations got to escape of a general picture, in which the capitalism reigns,in all of the sectors of the economy. In Brazil a strategy of rural development was defined based on the strengthen of the family agriculture, being centered in the improvement of the infrastructure and in support. In this context, this work has as general objective to analyze the sustain of the family agriculture, showing the main potencial factors and restrictive to the development of the family agriculture in the First Setember Assentment in the Municipality of Tauá-Ceará. The study was based in the analyses ex-post, in process and ex-ante, analysing the economic, social and environmental aspect of the establishment in study. In the economical analysis, the family income was calculated for 2002, being compared with the one calculed in 1999 for BARROS (2000). In the social and environmental analyses the model used was Forest Service of United States Agricultural Department, through Range Project Effetiveness Producers Handbook, 1986, modified, according to methodology used by BARRADAS (1999). This model allowed the evaluation of the social and environmental variables, transforming them in quantitative variables, and from them obtained the significance index of the referred variables. It was ended that the main potencial factors of the development of the establishment were the fertile soils. The vagetation and fauna diversified, the existence of hidro reservation and labor availability, although disqualified. While, the restrictive factors were water availability for the production, home problem, health, energy, highways, income, rural credit, technical support and organization of the production. Therefore, it is necessary that the State redefine development politics based in the strengthen of the family agriculture, not restricting only to the agrarian politics, but to guarantee, at least, the access to the infrastructure of services and the instruments to the development.