Capital social em hortas comunitárias e sua contribuição para o desenvolvimento sustentável

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.