Práticas de desenvolvimento sustentável exercida pela Comunidade Laginha do município de Prata - PB.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze the practices of sustainable development carried out by the Laginha community in the ZéMarcolino settlement, in the municipality of Prata- PB. With a bibliographical study referencing several authors, stressing the concepts of sustainable development, modern agriculture and solidarity economy. It was hoped to respond to the problematic how to generate income and sustainable development in a regionofthe Paraíba Semiarid. There are many difficulties for small farmers in the semi-arid region to generate income in their localities without damaging the environment and practicing sustainability in its triple that is to promote social, economic and environmental, promoting the sustainability of the generation of the present as well as the future generation. Consonance to sustainable development arises the familiar agriculture that is practiced by the farmers of the small rural properties of Brazil where they plant crops for their consumptions and sell the surplus, end up working with production without the use ofpesticidesand in smallscales.caring for theresourcesBecausetheyunderstand that they can be without them if they do not take care of themselves and work with solidary economy. In contrast, the issues of sustainability and solidary economy arise the agribusiness that is an advance in the export and economic sector and that increasingly seeks to control rural areaswithVariousintensificationsofOfthepricemainly in the areas that are part of agribusiness and consequently there have been several factors that are not favorable, such as the social and environmental sector, the invasion of indigenous lands and the slave labor of agribusiness workers.