Sustainability and good living from the perspective of family farmers in the Sustainable Development Project ‘São Paulo’, northern Amazon of Mato Grosso state, Brazil

Abstract:

In the Brazilian Amazon, rural settlements are increasingly isolated by large-scale production farms, compromising their sustainability and the well-being of settled family farmers. This work was carried out in settlements to measure sustainability. However, most do not take into account the participation and collectivity of those involved. In this way, we propose to evaluate, in a collective and participative way, the sustainability and well-being of the Sustainable Development Project - SDP São Paulo, Amazon in northern Mato Grosso state. We use the workshop and the traffic light system to assess the sustainability of the SDP. The assessment of the sustainability of the settlement allowed us to understand how sustainability and good living are being built in the process of the settlement's history. Sustainability and good living are dialectical processes, they are under construction, in movement.

Keywords:
family farming; rural settlements; agricultural ecology; participant research; land reform