https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/574 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:08:22 GMT 2026-02-04T12:08:22Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8094 Title: Capital social em hortas comunitárias e sua contribuição para o desenvolvimento sustentável Autor: Costella, Irineu Primeiro orientador: Ahlert, Alvori Abstract: This thesis aimed to understand and analyze social capital and its contribution to sustainable development generated by the community garden in the peri-urban area of Teutônia, RS, from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu and Robert Putnam, classic authors of social capital in Sustainable Development, and from the unique humanist approach of Amartya Sen and Kate Raworth, respectively, Development as freedom, which occurs in the capabilities of the human animal, and Donut Economy, as the organization of Planet Earth, the Planetary Home of all beings, satisfying the needs of the present generation without preventing future generations from satisfying theirs. This is an exploratory and descriptive research applied as a case study with a qualitative approach. The study was carried out in the Redentor community garden, Teutônia, RS, a Diaconate project of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB), a local initiative of the ministers linked to the institution and who work in the parish to which the community garden is linked. The research was structured in five parts: documentary, four audio interviews, questionnaire, WhatsApp messages and informal conversations. The first specific objective corresponds to the documentary research, met by the community garden project, four publications in local journals. The questionnaire, four audio interviews (project coordinator and volunteer, with postgraduate studies and volunteer). The questionnaire and WhatsApp messages primarily meet the other objectives. The second objective consists of identifying the relationships built from the development of the community garden in the 8 indicators: participation, trust; solidarity; cooperation; social inclusion; reciprocity; citizenship and empowerment. The third objective aims to analyze the development of social capital generated by the community garden. The fourth objective seeks to identify the contributions of the social capital of the community garden to sustainable development. The community garden, like a powerhouse of ideas, expands its action with the solidarity market/thrift store, exchange, bread cooperative and naturalist garden. For future studies, it is suggested to verify and understand the impact of environmental commemorative dates (52 in the annual calendar), celebrated in urban community gardens, as a space for generating social capital and its contribution to sustainable development. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Tese Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8094 2025-02-28T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8071 Title: Segurança pública e desenvolvimento rural sustentável: um estudo sobre o contrabando de agrotóxicos na fronteira Brasil x Paraguai Autor: Rodrigues, Erica Primeiro orientador: Barbosa Filho, Evandro Alves Abstract: This thesis addressed the smuggling of pesticides, a recurring practice in border regions, and analyzed its relationship with public security and sustainable rural development. By connecting two areas that are rarely explored together—public security and sustainable rural development—the research presented an innovative approach. It also highlighted the contribution of public security forces in combating illegal trade practices involving these products, with a primary focus on the Brazil-Paraguay border, demonstrating their impact on health, the environment, and border dynamics, which reflects the participation of this sector in sustainable rural development. The research is motivated by the need to better understand the issue, strengthen enforcement, and address the environmental, social, and economic impacts of pesticides, especially those from the illicit market. Although the use of pesticides is widely defended by agribusiness, it poses risks to public health, the environment, and food security, which are exacerbated by the lack of regulation on smuggling, particularly in border areas. This practice harms water and soil, generating liabilities and requiring action from public security forces. Thus, the research emphasizes the role of public security as a promoter of social justice and sustainable development, in addition to discussing the need to integrate preventive and educational measures into rural security. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the study explores the connections between public security, sustainability, and the impacts of pesticide smuggling, employing Ulrich Beck's risk society theory to analyze the challenges posed by technological development and globalization. The main objective was to analyze the illegal trade of pesticides on the Brazil-Paraguay border. The specific objectives include characterizing the effects of pesticides on sustainable rural development, examining public security actions against the illicit market, and describing the potential and limitations of the institutions involved. The justification reinforces the importance of preventive actions and research that promote awareness and sustainability, focusing on border regions and the contribution of public security to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Finally, the study concludes that although public security actions are essential in mitigating the problem, they are not sufficient to resolve it. The increasing demand for pesticides driven by agribusiness, combined with weak legislation, makes this activity attractive to criminal networks that operate on a large scale. Thus, the true solution to pesticide smuggling lies in promoting agricultural practices that reduce dependency on these chemicals. Since smuggled pesticides are not the only threat to the environment and life, this thesis proposes promoting sustainable agriculture as the best strategy to tackle the problem. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Tese Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8071 2025-02-27T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/7970 Title: A negação dos direitos previdenciários aos camponeses do acampamento Sebastião Camargo em São Miguel do Iguaçu - PR Autor: Depiné, Fabiana Telles David Primeiro orientador: Fabrini, João Edmilson Abstract: This research aims to demonstrate the struggle of the peasants of the Sebastião Camargo Camp, located in the municipality of São Miguel do Iguaçu/PR, regarding recognition as rural producers in a family economy regime for social security purposes. The peasants in the camp of Sebastião Camargo, in addition to the struggle for land (struggle for the fair distribution of land, as provided for in the legislation that deals with agrarian reform), also seek recognition as rural producers in a family economy regime, in order to have access to social security rights. Legal recognition as rural producers in a family economy involves the recognition of the campers as agricultural producers, seeking ways to have their work activity (agricultural) recognized, which allows them to have access to the guarantee of rights denied in the not so distant past, including the social security losses that non-recognition as rural producers entails, both now and in the future. It is worth noting that, according to social security legislation, peasants, campers, workers or rural producers in a family economy regime are recognized only as rural producers. Although they have different concepts in other areas of knowledge, for the law they are the same legal subject and therefore in this research, we will treat all of them as rural producers in a family economy regime. The condition of rural producers in a family economy of the campers can be verified in their production in the small area they occupy, mainly fruit and vegetables, commercial and subsistence; as well as in their contribution (payment) to social security to guarantee their rights to benefits. However, the struggle in the sphere of legality and the guarantee of rights, such as social security, does not mean disregarding or sidelining the entire trajectory of peasant struggle and resistance in social movements such as the struggle to conquer land. In this sense, structural struggles such as the struggle for agrarian reform land go hand in hand with struggles in the sphere of the institutional order for the guarantee of legal rights, the central theme of this research. The elaboration of this research was supported by a group of authors who deal with the theme; access to documents, mainly legal and official; and field data collection (interviews and questionnaires with campers), which provided empirical support for understanding the denial, struggles and achievements of rights, in this case, social security rights for campers in Sebastião Camargo. Bibliographical, exploratory and descriptive research was carried out, in which articles and doctrines were analyzed, with a descriptive and documentary bias. The research was exploratory in nature, with the purpose of exploring all fields with the possibility of extracting the information necessary to obtain satisfactory results. The research carried out will be bibliographical research, prepared from previously published material (books, articles, theses, etc.), intensively reviewing the existing literature on a given subject in question. A questionnaire was applied by sampling (28 of the 90 families) to collect data on family composition, income, production, form of marketing of production and which benefits have been requested and denied to date. By conducting this research, we conclude that the lack of recognition as rural producers directly reflects the lack of access to social security rights, which all producers and workers who are part of Social Security have the right to access. We understand that the same problem faced by the campers at Sebastião Camargo (lack of recognition as rural producers in a family economy regime) is also present in other camps and that perhaps the methods applied to solve the problem in this camp can be disseminated and used in other camps in the country. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/7970 2025-04-17T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/7955 Title: O impacto do cooperativismo e do associativismo na aquicultura no reservatório de Salto Caxias Autor: Schwanke, Jéssica Primeiro orientador: Feiden, Aldi Abstract: Aquaculture plays a fundamental role in the economy and food sustainability, being driven by organizational models such as cooperativism and associations. This research aims to investigate how cooperativism and associations influence the development of aquaculture. The study was structured into two articles. The first carried out a systematic literature review, identifying nine main dimensions that characterize the impacts of cooperativism in aquaculture: information management, strengthening the production chain, improving decision-making, support and incentives, increasing profits and production, increasing the efficiency of the production chain, participatory management, vertical and horizontal integration and sustainability. The second article focused on fish farming in the Salto Caxias Reservoir, analyzing the challenges faced by fish farmers organized in cooperatives and associations and future perspectives. The research revealed significant growth in fish farming in the reservoir. Regarding the difficulties faced, it was identified that commercialization has a greater impact on productive activities. As for the challenges, it was observed that health risk and technological innovation are considered the biggest concerns. The Swot Analysis revealed that fish farming in the reservoir has opportunities for growth, but depends on strategic planning and effective public policies. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Tese Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/7955 2025-02-27T00:00:00Z