Rede de unidades de observação pedagógica: instrumento para a qualificação da ação do técnico no programa de ATES

Abstract

The state of Rio Grande do Sul has approximately 336 Settlement Projects, which occupy an area close to 290,000 hectares, benefiting around 12,000 families. To ensure the development process of the beneficiaries of this public policy, the federal government created in 2004 the Technical Assistance Program, Social and Environmental agrarian reform (ATES), aimed exclusively at families beneficiaries of land reform in Settlement Projects. Since its inception the ATES program has been enhanced through regional and state boards of ATES, comprising representatives of PAs and entities involved in the program. One of the demands of the state board of ATES was to create a system that would enable generate qualified information on PAs, being created in 2012 the Integrated Management of ATES / RS (SIGRA) and, to effectively have diagnoses of productive systems the Pedagogical Note Units Network (RUOP) which is undergoing consolidation. The RUOP consists of more than 100 educational observation units (UOP), which are representative agricultural production units of the main agricultural production systems of the RS settlements, five of the Operational Nucleus of ATES Julio de Castilhos. The UOPs are being followed for three years, generating technical and economic indicators for assessing the ability of social reproduction. These indicators are subsidizing the plans of interventions that are proposed for these farms and this has allowed the qualification of technical action for these families.