Caracterização dos agroecossistema em um assentamento de reforma agrária no amazonas: possibilidades de mudança no modelo de produção.

Abstract

ABSTRACT This work was carried out in the settlement of the Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) named Sustainable Development Project (PDS) New hope in Iranduba-AM municipality, and analyzed impacts of conventional agriculture adopted by the family of the settlement farmers in order to contribute to change unsustainable farming practices towards adoption of techniques and less degrading practices of the environment and human health. The project comprises a larger project of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA Western Amazon), called Agro-ecological transition and had among other data collection activities through Participatory workshops for development of a Participatory Rural Appraisal - PRA, which made possible a "portrait "the local reality and facilitated planning of actions to be developed with the settlers, to reverse damage caused by the adopted agricultural model. Through the DRP can evaluate the settlement faces many difficulties as fragile social organization, problem of water shortage, and poor land use, lack of transportation and internal conflicts generated by the lack of nesting mode where they live and account of the historical process of occupation of the settlement area. Among the actions of the project, we collect soil for analysis, organic fertilization courses, composting, bio-fertilizers and green manure and planting fertilizing plants. KEYWORDS: Agroecological transition, Settlement