Implantação de Programa de Produção mais Limpa como contribuição à sustentabilidade em propriedade agrícola familiar de base ecológica

Abstract

Currently the attentions of the world are focused on the theme of sustainable development, in particular to the issue of food production required to meet the demand of the growing world population. It is clear that the current model of agricultural food production is unsustainable in time and space, which has led to the emergence of more sustainable farming systems based on the principles of agroecology. Cleaner production aims to evaluate production processes, integrating technical, economic and environmental aspects, in order to identify opportunities to rationalize the consumption of natural resources, with consequent reduction of waste generation. The concepts and methodological apparatus of cleaner production are related to the theoretical foundations of the transition to more sustainable agricultural models, guided by preventive principles such as reducing and eliminating the use of non-renewable inputs, the development of technologies that save inputs and forms of agriculture less dependent on scarce environmental resources. This study aimed to analyze the contributions of deploying a cleaner production program in improving the sustainability of a family farm property of ecological base. For both the work was structured in three phases: implantation of cleaner production programme, analysis of the methodology of implantation and analysis of contributions to sustainability of the property. Case studies implemented have resulted in improvements of environmental, social and economic order on the property, proving thus that the implantation of cleaner production programme contributed to improving the sustainability of the property. Was evidenced a conceptual and methodological convergence between the program and the process of transition to ecological agricultural systems, being possible to infer that the cleaner production can be a useful, practice and dynamics tool in the transition process of agroecological farms family.