Educação ambiental e agricultura familiar: uma análise do povoado de Lagoa das Flores em Vitória da Conquista, BA.

Abstract

This work had as thematic the Environmental Education and its relations with the practice of family farming in the town of Lagoa das Flores, in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia. For both the objective monograph this study aimed to analyze the importance of family farming in the development of the town of Lagoa das Flores in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia. Thus, we sought to among other objectives, highlighting the importance of environmental education in aid practices in cultures derived from the family farm, verify the existence of relationship between development and sustainability and family farming and examining the contributions of using proper techniques developed the community to reduce the impacts of activities on the environment. Thus, it was noticed that at the study site of this study, family farmers emerge as actors that secure the man in the field, generating employment and income for rural areas, as well as share a rationality that is not focused on the destruction of environment, but, in maintaining this through less aggressive techniques, as security for his family reproduction, while it can also perpetuate this rationality in other regions.