A pecuária familiar e a gestão de recursos hídricos da bacia hidrográfica do rio Camaquã: um estudo de caso no território do alto camaquã

Abstract

A key feature of family livestock of the Alto Camaquã is its dependence on the natural resources, including springs for watering animals and domestic supply. However, this territory requires water management strategies, mainly due to the geological complexity that contributes to the occurrence of drought, the discontinuous rains and the lack of water in the catchment system. Any modification action in this reality requires knowledge of the Watershed Management Committee of the Camaquã River- WMCCR. The guiding objective of this research was to identify possible family livestock representation channels in the Alto Camaquã in WMCCR, seeking enable the construction of public policies that meet their specific demands. We tried to understand if the Committee's member institutions that potentially could represent the family livestock of the Alto Camaquã. We investigated if the family farmers recognize the WMCCR as legitimate place for the construction of public policies for their demands, so identifying if the farmers recognize some institution or representative of its class and how they adapt and face this vulnerability. To answer the research questions and objectives of this study made use of a conceptual model for the construction of the problem and then the interview scripts. The interviews were sent to content analysis, proposed by Laurence Bardin, guided by social research method of Marilia Cecilia Minayo as a way to understand the representative and symbolic aspects of social actors. 17 interviews with members of the Committee, management 2014/2016, were conducted, and 25 interviews with family farmers, comprises a total of ten districts of the Alto Camaquã territory. These results demonstrated a lack of representation and a lack of family livestock of the Alto Camaquã, besides deficiencies in representation of channels of the WMCCR categories included in this research. Soon the farmers do not recognize the Committee as a legitimate place for discussions of their problems about water resources management. The means of adaptation, in the territory of the Alto Camaquã, is due to a sustainable rationality in the management of springs, which are used for more noble consumption, as well as a care of them to ensure their existence on this place. Possible solutions of recognition channel and representations to these social actors on the margins of the Committee are proposed. Recommendations were also proposed involving management actions, in order to contribute to the development of public policies in the management of water resources of the family livestock of Alto Camaquã.