Agricultura urbana: experiências que exemplificam sua importância para uma sociedade sustentável

Abstract

Urban agriculture can be seen as a tool to solve social, environmental and economic problems. Given this, this work brings two experiences that demonstrate the possibilities of doing agriculture in the city and its importance. The first experience is in the social garden of the project Fortaleza, an age-friendly city, in Conjunto Ceará, which aims to produce organic vegetables, with the participation of the elderly, and at harvest the production is donated to them. To analyze the satisfaction and the view of the elderly about the project was conducted a questionnaire. The second experience is on the Domingos Pontes farm, which produces carnauba wax, whose objective was to experience the implementation and programming of a forest nursery for the production of carnauba seedlings and other native caatinga species. These experiences have helped to ensure that urban agriculture is possible, either in the production of vegetables or seedlings of native caatinga species, and that this helps in the development of a sustainable society.