Indicadores de desenvolvimento no assentamento Carrasco/Esperança - Alagoa Nova, PB

Abstract

Rural development followed the model of modernization of economic development, culminating in social, environmental and economic consequences. In the absence of local development indicators to assess rural settlements, considered only economic performance. In this context, it was necessary to characterize the social development indicators, economic, environmental and organizational of the Assentamento Carrasco,in addition to assess development indicators of the assenatmento using Multicriteria analysis methods, and these determinations were the main objectives of this work. The assentamento is located between the cities of Esperança and Alagoa Nova, in the middle region of Agreste of Paraíba, and it is the experiemtnal unit. The methodological procedures consisted of applying structured questionnaires, with questions related to quantitative and / or qualitative indicators of social, economic, environmental and organizational of the Assentamento. The analysis of development indicators were made using statistical distributions and methods of Multicriteria Analysis, Weighted Average and the ELECTRE I. The main results reveal the low education of the assentados and a regular health service. In the economic dimension (productive) families have a predominant wage income of no more than minimum wage. In a general context, it is emphasized that farmers need to resort to social benefits, the most important are Bolsa Família, Seguro Safra and Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escola-PNAE, and the main source of funding is the Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar- PRONAF. The family farms developed in the Assentamento are based on subsistence farming or traditional and permanent crops, apart from agriculture, there are also agricultural activities, livestock, aviculture and apiculture. The source of water supply for irrigation comes from Riacho Ribeira and eight small reservoirs located inside the Assentamento and water for human consumption is captured trough rain, and the water is stored in tanks. Given the results obtained in the Multicriteria Analysis of the Assentamento Carrasco, it can be concluded that the methods Weighted Average and ELECTRE I, were effective in assessing the Assentamento in its dimensions: social, economic - productive, environmental and organizational, But the ELECTRE I method has a mathematical model, robustness and other criteria molded to the place in question, thus the proposed method as a tool for evaluation of the indicators of social, economic, environmental and organizational of the Assentamento Carrasco.