Aspectos sociais, econômicos e culturais de sistemas agroflorestais assistidos pelo projeto florestação no estado do Ceará

Abstract

The Green Revolution brought us the false sensation of advance to the growing demand of food, with excessive food production and abusive exploration of natural resources. On the opposite way of this reality, there are the SAF and the productive vegetable gardens, which cherish for the conservation and sustainability of agriculture lands, also to ensure maintenance and stability of socio, cultural and economic characteristics. Therefore, this research has the objective of analyzing four different families that use the SAF, assisted by the FlorestAção project in the Território da Cidadania Vales do Curu e Aracatiaçu at the state of Ceará, based on cultural and socioeconomic indicators, from the level of agroecological transition and participation at agroecological farming network. In each one of the selected families, four visits were made, guided by participative methodologies, with the application of quizzes that were based on cultural and socioeconomic indicators. On both indicators, the agroecological transition time, the participation in agroecological farming network and in farmer’s markets, ensure the rooting of their own cultural inheritance and also were determinant on obtaining better grades in the socioeconomic indicator. The results and experiences achieved with this study showed that, according to this indicators, despite the difficulties and natural limitations of the region, and also the process of appropriation and exclusion of the means of production, it is possible to create conditions so we can have an agroecological agriculture, proposing new ways of doing agriculture, creating fixation of the man in the countryside, balanced social organization, generation healthy food with responsibility, solidary economy and maintenance of the cultural identity.