A análise da efetividade do projeto Água: fonte de alimento e renda para a sustentabilidade da comunidade de Uruçu no semiárido nordestino

Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate the impacts caused by the project Water: Source of Nutrition and Income , when it comes to its contribution concerning the sustainability of the community of Uruçu located on the semi-desert of Northeast Brazil. The methodology used for this research is exploratory and descriptive in nature, once data and opinion for respondents were collected, as well as statistical techniques for the calculation of sustainability and vulnerability. As to the means, it is a bibliographic and field research that was undertaken on the community of Uruçu, located oin São João do Cariri, a countryside town of the Paraíba Sate. For the implementation of the research were necessary visits for recognition, non-active observation and for the application of questionnaires that were structured with objective and subjective questions which addressed issues of social, environmental, economical, technical and vulnerability nature. For the analysis of sustainability on the Uruçu community, the model proposed by Gonzalés and Carvajal (2002) was adapted, which mesures the global sustainability index on the producing unit in agroecological system. Its application made clear that project s activity in the community didn t reach favorable levels of sustainability, however, the community of Uruçu does not find itself in an aggravating vulnerability situation, which is favorable, once a lower vulnerability degree raises the expectation of achieving sustainability. This way, it is evident that the community tends to develop itself in a sustainable way, once the vulnerability found there is very low. Therefore, the project Water: Source of Nutrition and Income is of extreme importance for the sustainable development of the community of Uruçu, since it offers means for the community to follow the proposed activities, allowing people to play the leading role for the change on their own lives.