Princípio norteadores para a construção de um modelo de agricultura familiar sustentável para a região da zona da mata de Pernambuco, focado na agroecologia.

Abstract

This work considers guiding principles focused in the agroecology for the establishment of a sustainable familiar agriculture process in the Region of the Zone of Mata of the State of Pernambuco. It was used a methodology of fast diagnosis of the agrarian systems (FAO/Incra). After this, it was made a characterization of the systems of production of the agriculturists as well as the environment that surround them. This was made through an evaluation of the sustainability indicators of the model of Pressure-Situation-Reply - PSR, defined for the OCDE (1993) e analysis of four specific successful cases of other regions that could be used in order to minimize the situation of degradation and marginalization of the extract of agriculturists and farmers of familiar base of the studied region. Suggestions and recommendations for the implementation of a process aiming at a model of agriculture based in the agroecology are presented by multidimensional ways. In this context, the solution for the enviromental, economic and social problems of the studied region will be based on the agroecology as an instrument for the sustainable development of family based agriculturists and farmers. It is stressed the importance of the support of the public power in the dynamization of this process and highlighting the family based agriculturist as protagonists, independent of the type of activity and the size of the agricultural enterprise. This process is placed from four dimensions of sustainability: social, economic, ambient and cultural, each one with its respective indicator, that, allow the visualization of the respective level of sustainability to each dimension. Its systematic application could be an important tool of management for the search of sustainability in the region, standing out the importance of the agroecology as un instrument to the sustainable development of agriculture of familiar basis in the region. The principles considered and its use for a new paradigm of family based agriculture could be an important instrument for the search of the sustainable development in the region. In accordance with the results of the research in relation to the indicators of Pressure-Situation-Reply, it is concluded that the response indicators had still not materialized and, therefore, this research will be able to serve of instrument for an opening of a debate to the best options of reply that the society is willing to give for the problem in guideline.