AGROECOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS IN THE NOVA ESPERANÇA COMMUNITY -SÃO MARCOS INDIGENOUS LAND, PACARAIMA/RR

Abstract

Indigenous peoples have always sought to use their relationship with the land in order to achieve sustainability. In this sense, the objective of this work is to verify the agroecological dimensions of sustainability in the study using the MESMIS method (Marco de Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo Incorporando Indicadores de Sustentabilidad) in Nova Esperança indigenous community, São Marcos indigenous land in Roraima. The methodology involved field research, in which information was collected that helped to evaluate the level of sustainability, through the method entitled Framework for the Assessment of Natural Resource Management Systems Incorporating Sustainability Indicators (MESMIS), based on the following attributes of sustainability: Productivity, reliability; resilience; adaptability; equity and self-management. The results obtained from the application of the questionnaire to the 20 residents aiming to correlate the sustainability indicators for each social (31%), cultural (31%), environmental (20%) and economic (18%) dimension demonstrated that it was possible to identify that the The most important dimensions of sustainability were the social and cultural, while the economic dimension presented the lowest percentage. It is concluded that the economic dimension was less important due to the lack of applicability of public policies for economic development that meet the specificities of indigenous peoples.