A importância da produção ecológica de forma coletiva no bem estar social das famílias associadas à Cooperativa Agropecuária Vista Alegre

Abstract

The sustainable nutritional food safety means guarantee for everyone, conditions to access food with quality permanently, without compromising other needs. This research had the purpose to analyze an ecological production system and based in the principles of the agroecológia and the collective work of the families of the Cooperative Vista Alegre (COOPAVA) on the agrarian reform settlement Conquest of Freedom, Piratini city, Rio Grande do Sul. It was done an analysis of the contribution of the products from these agricultural systems on the sustainable income and food safety of these families. The evaluation of these systems as well as the collective work of the cooperative was related to the social, cultural, environmental and economic aspects, to identify the level of sustainability that these associated families have. The study had a qualitative character, such as "case study" although it has some methodologies described by the literature. The descriptive data was obtained through direct and interactive contact of the researcher with the object of study. One searched the phenomena from the perspective of the participants of the studied situation and from the data interpretation. With the results gotten in this research it was possible to affirm that the way of ecological production and the collective work of the families had contributed not only to improve the conditions of economic and ambient sustainability, but had earned in improvements in the quality of life.