Avaliação da sustentabilidade de agroecossistemas dos agricultores familiares de Pato Branco

Abstract

The concept of sustainability has gained a place in public discussions and debates, and as such deserves a great deal of attention in various activities, be they public or private, industrial or family, primary, secondary or even tertiary sectors, and as such, the sustainability of a space should be of global concern. In this sense, indicators have been developed to evaluate sustainability by applying to several case studies. This proposal has the general objective of evaluating the sustainability of family farmers in the municipality of Pato Branco. In this way, a list of sustainability indicators was developed, based on the MESMIS methodology and the FOFA/SWOT analysis. To complement the measurement of these indicators, the likert scale was also used. From the dimensions evaluated it is concluded that the social and environmental dimension have the best performance with an average of 2.3, followed by the economic dimension, with an average of 2.0. It is thus perceived that the group of family farmers participating in the research have general levels of sustainability between regular and high.