Agricultura orgânica e desenvolvimento rural endógeno dos municípios lindeiros paranaenses

Abstract

The conventional model of rural development in Brazil resulting from technological processes, resulted in an increase in the food production, which only supported the large producers and resulted in disparities between small and large agriculturists. When was considered the need of programs, that aim the rural development in a sustainable way, was found the existence of the Cultivating Good Water Program of Hydroeletric Itaipu Binational Dam. The same has action in the municipalities of Paraná three Watershed, in which is inserted the social-environmental program Rural Sustainable Development, which includes the activith of organic agriculture, the subject of this study. Therefore, presented like general objective analyze the impact of the specific actions of organic agriculture in the endogenous rural development of the bordering cities of lake Itaipu of Paraná, that have organic certified agriculturist. Specifically the objective was characterize the organic agriculturist, create a Endogenous Rural Development Indicator (IDRE) of the properties studied and analyze the results of the IDRE of properties and analyze the results of this Indicator your relation with the endogenous rural development in the eight bordering cities of Parana that have organic certified agriculturist. To achieve the objective, was built a Endogenous Rural Development, with methodology based on Kageyama (2004) with some modifications. IDRE is composed by seven partial indicators that result from the dimensions and variables selected and is classified in four stages of development. Each partial indicator is composed by the simple arithmetic average obtained through the variables of each dimension and the IDRE is the arithmetic average of seven partial indicators. The study is characterized as a case study of Cultivating Good Water Program, with interviews applied to 26 agriculturists in the period from july to September 14. Referent the results, the indicator with the highest average was the Development, were found social and economic disparities when was analyzed the Income and Acess to Public Goods among the agriculturists and among the averages of partial indicators, the lower was the Rural Exodus Indicator. However, despite of disparities found between the indicator obtained, concludes that there are properties that assist in endogenous rural development process in your locality, with unequal contributions according to your partial indicators, since it is known that is almost impossible the equity in all factors that contribute to the development.