Roteiro de agroturismo de São Pedro da Serra e arredores, Nova Friburgo/RJ: potencialidades e limitações

Abstract

This dissertation has the objective to present a guide of agritourism in the region of São Pedro da Serra, Lumiar, Santo Antonio and surroundings, districts of Nova Friburgo and Bom Jardim, state Rio de Janeiro. Based on their potential for the rural tourism, twenty two (22) properties were gathered in this guide, specially for combining activities of family agriculture with others directed to visitation, performing sustainable practices that benefit environmental conservation and food security of the local population. The work was motivated from the results obtained in the project "Awareness and Promotion of Sustainable Practices in Family-Based Agriculture in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro", which aimed researching and quantifying agricultural production of the farm producers from São Pedro da Serra as well as verifying the consumption of the agricultural production from the local population and its surroundings, so as to help structuring and promoting a short market circuits of family farm food products. Throughout the interviews conducted in this project, we observed that one of the highlighted demands was the enhancement of both, tourism and agriculture, and the creation of links between these two segments, through the construction of an agrotourism guide. The research focused the dynamics of regional development, the history of the studied area, the historical trajectory of farm ancestors, the farmers themselves, as well as their nuclear families, and their way of living, specially their labour relations in rural tourism, their networks and the correlations between different ruralities of São Pedro da Serra and its surroundings.