Banca de DEFESA: ANA CLAUDIA SIVIERO

AGRO-ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF FAMILIES THAT MAKE PART OF THE TAPAJÓS ORGANICOS

 ASSOCIATION, IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SANTARÉM AND MOJUÍ DOS CAMPOS, PARÁ

Organic production, OCS, Metropolitan Region of Santarém

Organic farmers in Santarém and Mojuí dos Campos are organized into Social Control Organizations (OCS). In February 2015, the Tapajós Organic Association, generated from meetings between the producers of the five OCS, and which brings together organic family farmers from 7 (seven) OCS's. This project aims to analyze the practices carried out in the management of family organic production systems, from the perception of families affiliated to the Tapajós Organic Association, in the Metropolitan Region of Santarém, Pará, for this purpose will be launched using a qualitative-quantitative research and will be based on the study of cases, through interviews that will be carried out by semi-structured script. Concomitantly, with the observation in the field in the monitoring of the productive activities carried out by the farmers. Thus, the research will contribute scientifically to expand knowledge, describe and validate the organic agriculture that has been carried out in the Metropolitan Region of Santarém, in addition to subsidizing as a contribution to the production of a technical document, guiding how such practices can help producers who wish to go through the transition process to the development of organic production, as well as the expansion of the number of organic families in the region.