Agricultura orgânica e a sustentabilidade de agroecossistemas familiares em Medicilândia-PA

Abstract

The Organic agriculture has been stimulated by the social movements of the region in which it operates this study, as an alternative able to corroborate the consolidation strategies more sustainable agroecosystems. Understanding organic agriculture as a production system based on relations more harmonized with the environment and provides greater equity and profitability, it was proposed to analyze the folding of organic production in the sustainability of familiar agroecosystems in the municipality of Medicilândia, state of Pará. We had as central hypothesis that organic production provides positive repercussions on the sustainability of the agroecosystems. Therefore, it was decided by methodological arrangement with qualitative procedures such as field observation and interviews with producers members COPOAM - Cooperative of Organic Farmers of the Amazon and quantitative procedures, mostly with the adjustment tool MESMIS (Framework for Evaluation of Systems of Natural Resource Management incorporating sustainabilities indicators) to the reality of family farmers of Medicilândia. With the sustainability evaluation of agroecosystems was established that there is the folding of organic production in the agroecosystems studied, incurring changes in production dynamics well as the way of life of families.