ARAÚJO, R. O. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5214791192554124; ARAÚJO, Rudrigo Otávio Andrade.
Résumé:
Social technologies have emerged earlier this twenty-first century with explicit
objectives to improve the quality of life, social inclusion and empowerment of
disadvantaged sections of the population, which makes inadequate review from the
indicators that are usually adopted to evaluate conventional technologies. Based on
bibliographical and documentary research, analyzing the theory and practical cases
proposed to the System of Indicators for Diagnosis, Monitoring and Evaluation of
Social Technologies (SIDMATECS), whose validation was made through the empirical
application in the Community Seed Banks (BSC) in Rural Territory of Borborema,
Paraíba state. The results show that the community seed bank constitutes a genuine
social technology, highly effective with regard to their specific purposes to conserve
and recover the local agro-biodiversity, ensuring food and nutritional security of
families and productive autonomy of farmers, as well as in relation to social inclusion,
improving the quality of life and empowerment of its users, contributing to greater
sustainability of territorial agricultural activity.