Avaliação da sustentabilidade agrícola de unidades de produção orgânica do estado do Pará

Abstract

Over the past four centuries, the State of Pará has undergone several experiences of agricultural development, characterized by low sustainable activities, generating an environment of great destruction, in addition to the lack of economic alternatives and the use of appropriate technology. Due to the advance of conventional agriculture in the Amazon biome and the impacts generated by this activity, especially in the State of Pará, the need to evaluate the sustainability of organic crops in the region is evident, in order to provide analytical information to support appropriate strategies for changes in the local reality, with a view to the development and expansion of agricultural practices with less potential for degradation. From this perspective, the quantitative measurement through indicators of sustainability of agroecosystems through the method of Durability Indicators in Agricultural Properties (IDEA), showing new perspectives in order to develop the rural territory in a balanced way. In this context, the objective of the research was to evaluate agricultural sustainability through the IDEA method, applied in eleven agricultural production units that make up the Pará Organic Association distributed in the northeastern regions of Pará and metropolitan Belém. In the evaluation, it was observed that the economic dimension limits the sustainability of agroecosystems Although, two experiences of sustainable and economically viable crops were identified in the cities of Belém and Benevides.