Agroforestry as autonomy tool
The perception of the ecological base's family farmer
The unfolding and effective progress of learning and technology about the potential of applying the tools of ecological agriculture combining real interests between the interfaces of food production, biodiversity conservation, and natural resources reveals the important role that it plays in the context of family farming management. The sampling for this study included the use of one of the available tools suitable technology for ecological agriculture, the agroforestry. The research effort of this study was to cover an area of three distinct regions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and within them seven different cities: Dom Pedro de Alcantara, Morrinhos do Sul and Maquiné on the northern coast of Rio Grandedo Sul; Ipe and Antonio Prado in the mountain region, and the cities of Tupandi and Harmonia in the Caí valley. The purpose of this study favored the interdisciplinarity and reflects the general trends of the demands of knowledge in our society, asserting the importance of environmental studies and the search for subsidies for areas that focusing on theissue of sound management of natural resources. In this respect, our procedure contains the awareness of the impact of human action in one of the activities which most change the earth systems, the agriculture. As research tools we used interviews, photographic documentation, participative observation and a field diary, The methodology utilized was the Actor Oriented Perspective which instrumentalized the capture of the perceptions of farmers and their feedback about agroforestry tool. The data were classified to provide a reading practice from the viewpoint of respondents about the tool agroforestry, and as a result we found by multifunctional logic of family farming, a group of factors that support the technology as economically possible, environmentally responsible and socially equitable, and therefore it may, be provided as an effective and convenient tool for the management of productive areaswhich wish to apply the principles and technologies of the ecological agriculture. In addition, this tool also reflects an ethic approach on the land use issue land use as it increases natural capital, autonomy and conscious management of local resources and contribute as a complementary manner for processes of sustainable rural development.