Avaliação multidimensional de agroecossistemas: estudo de caso participativo na fazenda Jussara, sudeste paraense

Abstract

Agroecosystem is a unit of production and reproduction, economic and cultural inter-related to each other and to the environment in which it is located. It is based on this understanding that we aim to evaluate multidimensionally an agroecosystem. This is located in the southeast microregion of the state of Pará, and the work is the result of a case study and technical experience, aiming to discuss and reflect on the local environmental, production and cultural context, as well as to evaluate, based on the Lume methodology, the management, productive and economic-ecological organization of the property. The systematization of the results was directed according to the dimensions of agroecology, and, throughout the work, the social dimension had a wider space of discussion, because there is a chapter directed to discuss and reflect on the role of women in the peasant context, thus evidencing, once again, the breadth of the method used, since the evaluation based on the capitalist viewpoint the role of women in the field is invisibilized, while, with Lume one realizes the importance of this for the performance of activities in the agroecosystem. Thus, this work confirms the weaknesses of the development model adopted in the region, as well as again assures the need for qualified professionals in agro-ecological rural extension, to help peasants in the best productive direction, preserving the local ecosystem, in view of the fact that there is already an understanding that to develop one needs to get involved.