As dimensões da sustentabilidade na agricultura familiar: o caso da linha dos alemães em Dois Vizinhos - Paraná

Abstract

Brazilian agriculture assumes a decisive role in intervening in ecological processes, as, with the advent of the Green Revolution, as a result of modernization, it starts to adopt development strategies that significantly affected natural ecosystems, aiming at increasing productivity yields. The search for sustainability, which has intensified more and more in recent years, is now seen as a way of promoting economic growth in the same way that social justice and the preservation of nature are established, in other words, seeking to harmonize these three spheres. In this scenario, Family Farming has characteristics that differ from conventional farming, making it cited in the literature as a favorable environment for establishing sustainable development. On the other hand, currently, there are many obstacles in the maintenance, permanence and reproduction of this social category. Due to the above context, it becomes necessary to know more and more the different realities that make up the Brazilian Family Farming, in order to understand and seek solutions, considering its heterogeneity and enabling the implementation of improvement proposals on a case-by-case basis. From this perspective, the objective of this work was to analyze the dimensions of the sustainability of family farming in Linha dos Alemêes, in Dois Vizinhos, PR. The adopted methodology is characterized as exploratory analytical, being a case study with a qualitative approach, data collection occurred through the semi-structured interview instrument, approaching 5 families from the community and 3 agents (1 from the Municipal Agriculture Department, 1 from the Union of Rural Workers and 1 of Social Assistance). Among the results found, we highlight: in the social dimension, structural problems in education, low quality or lack of technical assistance, rural extension and basic public services that put at risk, in the medium to long term, the extinction of the community; in the economic dimension, we find a variety of strategies to obtain income, with the predominance being in the income from dairy production and pluriactivity stands out as a collection tactic, the low adherence to public policies and credit programs was also evidenced, as well. as the difficulty of economic reproduction among some farmers, revealing the need to devise new measures to improve the properties; in the environmental dimension, the lack or low quality of environmental sanitation services was highlighted, farmers suffer from a lack of water in dry seasons, revealing flaws in the water supply system and sharing the deficiency in water treatment and destination sewage and solid waste.