Segurança alimentar como estratégia de desenvolvimento sustentável: as hortas comunitárias como instrumento econômico de proteção socioambiental para o setor elétrico

Abstract

This paper discusses community gardens as an economic instrument of socioenvironmental protection for the electricity sector, as well as its potential in minimizing urban socio-environmental conflicts caused by irregular occupations under the energy distribution lines. The objective is to reveal how vegetable gardens in idle urban areas under power lines can be a strategy to mitigate socio-environmental risks, preserve real estate and the urban environment, while meeting social demand for food security and income generation, contributing with the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs, and thus becoming a tool for sustainable regional development as it contributes to municipal public policies for food security and social inclusion at an attractive material cost for companies in the electricity sector. The research was carried out based on bibliographic research, exploratory documentary research and case study of an initiative developed by Energy Company of Paraná (Companhia Paranaense de Energia – Copel), the main energy concessionaire in the State of Paraná, which included assessments of technical feasibility, legal feasibility, regulatory, land, environmental and social; internal flow construction; evaluation and standardization for possible replication of the experience at scale by the company and by others in the sector.