Práticas agroecológicas em assentamentos rurais no sul do Amazonas: uma abordagem institucional

Abstract

This article presents a discussion on the forms of access and use of natural resources `sustainable' rural settlements in the Amazon, relating them to the principies of agrarian reform policy. The study was conducted by means of comparative analysis from the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework method. The results indicate that the difficulties presented around the social organization and weakened institutional relations culminate in the vulnerability of the permanence of agroecological practices in the settlements. However, in the midst of this instability, the residents work from choices that provide them the continuity of technological innovations agroecological base, created by the needs of families and their empirical experimentation.