Agricultura Familiar no projeto de assentamento Nova Amazônia: a vida no Lavrado em Boa Vista – Roraima - Brasil

Abstract

To analyze the interrelations between families-based farmers, work praxis, use and conservation of water and land in the New Amazonia Settlement Project from 2000 to 2017, in the Boa Vista-Roraima agrarian area was the general objective of this thesis. Purpose traced from observation of social, economic and environmental dynamics. Transformative movements in the landscape units of the Lavrado environmental system. Edgar Morin's systemic complexity dialectic approach, combined with the Robert Yin case study, integrated the methodological and epistemological strategy of the research, elements chosen because they allowed to understand and explain the whole and the parts, order and disorder, the objective and the subjective. The environmental perception and the categories of analyzes were constituted in the instruments of data apprehension in the real world. Therefore, Place, program, strategy and immaterial work, made possible to understand, describe and reflect on the processes and the birth of autopoietic organizations in the Settlement. The quantitative and qualitative analyzes reflected the results found. In this trail it was possible to unveil the generative movement of the identity characteristics of the families-based farmers, the identity of the interactions and relationships expressed in environmental history. In the settlement, the site is the place of residence and the farm is the place of work, endowed with topophilic feelings. The multifunctionality of the family agriculture unit, as well as the pluriactivity of labor were evidences captured in the family productive unit, where the family is the centrality, inducing the productive and reproductive processes of social and biological life. Emergencies that originated the social, political and economic organizations, constitutive of a particular culture, reconstructed generationally around a common goal, the struggle for the land in the corners of the northern Amazon. It was found that conservation and degradation walk side by side, in morinian's complementarity, revealing contradictions and recursion, aspects that promote sustainability reflected in uncertainty, diversity, equity and adaptability.