Family farmers and decision making in land use and soil management - criteria and drivers: case study PA Zé Pureza.Public policy, soil conservation, decision making.
SOUZA, Juliana Silva de. Family farmers and decision making in land use and soil management - criteria and drivers: case study PA Zé Pureza. 2019. XXp. Thesis (Doctor in Agronomy, Soil Science). Instituto de Agronomia, Departamento de Solos, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, 2019.
The objective of this case study was to discriminate the family farmers criteria in decision - making on land use and soil management along the time in Zé Pureza - RJ agrarian reform settlement, and how they configure soil quality. In order to achieve this objective, it was sought to elucidate the main parameters that shaped the rationality of land use and land management choices of family farmers and to characterize the physical and social space in which they are inserted. Initially, interviews were conducted based on a script with socioeconomic items and another script with items on types of exploration and management adopted, and the physical characterization of production units. Based on the answers obtained from interviews with all 22 families, a structured questionnaire on land use and soil management along the time was elaborated. This questionnaire was also applied through interviews with each family, and objective answers were obtained that supported the multivariate analysis. For the refinement of maps of the use and environmental characterization of the settlements, obtained by satellite images, field surveys were carried out, concomitant to the interviews. Based on the land use and soil management history and soil survey, areas of interest for soil quality measurements were taken. As results, it was verified that ...