A diversificação de cultivos na sustentabilidade da agricultura familiar no município de Lagarto-SE

Abstract

Since 1960s a more pronounced concern for the environmental issues has expressed and susceptible to search for sustainable viable solutions and environmental protection in many countries. Within this context, the family farming manifested as favorable environment, at the socioeconomic level and environment, to the access of sustainability, rural development, food security and the fight against the inland communities poverty. The aim of this research is to analyze the sustainability of family farming in the municipality of Lagarto, Sergipe State. For this aim, was selected the Irrigated Perimeter of Piauí from Lagarto, this locality presents crops and different ways of management. Hence, was relied on the assumption that crop diversification in agriculture tends to contribute to more sustainable systems of both the social, economic and environmental point of view. The study is ruled by theoretical sources that address family farming, sustainable agriculture and the use of indicators for assessing sustainability in agriculture, from the systemic approach. The selection and analysis of indicators were based on |Indicateurs method durabilité des exploitations Agricoles IDEA|, with adaptations, which have identified the main factors that limit the sustainability in family production systems of the study area. As a result it was found that the axis of agricultural sustainability with lower average was the agri-environment, and for which one must seek improvements. Was also identified the low crop diversification in both the conventional system as the organic system, provides lower conditions of financial income in the properties. Thus, it is emphasized that crop diversification in agricultural production systems promotes higher levels of sustainability.