Sistemas agroflorestais como alternativa a pecuária extensiva: as experiências de agricultores familiares de assentamentos rurais do município de Conceição do Araguaia - PA

Abstract

The middle region of southeastern Pará is marked in its history by various political and social events that represent the way in which the Brazilian state and especially the national and international economic groups acted in the Amazon: a non-organized way and causing social and environmental impacts that have reflections to the present day. Conceição do Araguaia, one of the municipalities in this region carries in its history most of these facts. social conflicts, creation and coordination of movements of farmers and the thousands of family’s settlement policy, are important features of the city's legacy. Environmentally, beyond deforestation promoted by the Amazon in the Brazilian state of occupation policy coupled with the reality of logging of large installed economic groups, it was introduced in the city and in the region the model of extensive livestock, mainly aiming at ensuring large parcels of land, aggravating the environmental impacts already made. This study, therefore, was dedicated in researching the productive alternatives using agroforestry systems implemented by farmers linked to the Rural Workers Union and the Cooperative of farmers in the municipality of Conceição do Araguaia front of the model of extensive livestock rearing. Field data were collected through a questionnaire applied directly to the farmers of three settlements chosen by the direction of the Union and Cooperative. Agroforestry systems were found in random systems with diversity and contribute economically and environmentally with agro and present themselves as an important alternative against the predominant model of extensive livestock in the region.