Open AccessUSO E CONSERVAÇÃO DAS ÁREAS DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE E DE RESERVA LEGAL POR MORADORES DO ASSENTAMENTO BOA VISTA, PONTA PORÃ, MS
Author(s) -
Leandro Lopes Miranda,
Roberto Lobo Munin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista geonorte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2237-1419
DOI - 10.21170/geonorte.2020.v.11.n.38.224.242
Subject(s) - monoculture , agricultural science , environmental protection , geography , business , settlement (finance) , agriculture , human settlement , forestry , environmental planning , environmental science , archaeology , agronomy , biology , finance , payment
Rural settlements must be structured based on socioenvironmental principles that promote society-nature integration, so that peasantfarming is established in a socially, economically and environmentally just and sustainable manner. However, many residentsend up adhering to the production of commodities, which often advances over Areas of Permanent Preservation (APP) and Legal Reserve (LR). This work aimed to investigate the use and conservation of APPs and RLs by the residents of the Boa Vista settlement,municipality of Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sulstate. It also assesses the use of pesticides by families and in whichproductive activities they are employed. Most of the interviewed residents (73%) stated that they do not know which productive activitiescanbe developed in the areas of APP and LR. Despite this, 46% said they developed some type of activity in these areas, with beekeeping being mentioned by 27%, agriculture by 4%, and 15% did not want to say which productive activity they develop in the areas of APP and LR. A significant part of the owners (42%) use pesticides, mainly in the cultivation of soybeans, with glyphosate being the most usedone. The results of the study show a scenario where a good part of the residents produce soybeanswith the use of pesticides or lease part of the area of their lots for third parties to produce. This monoculture productionmodel puts the community's food sovereignty at risk, as it drastically reduces the space for the diversified cultivation of healthyand pesticides freefood, generating strong socio-environmental impacts.