Agricultura urbana e pobreza: um estudo no municipío de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

This research presents a discussion that involves the urban agriculture theme and its relation with poverty. Inside a new existing context related to the rural and urban environment, the urban agriculture arises, most of the times, as a survival alternative of poorer people that come from the rural area and live in the cities urban area. That does not mean that the urban agriculture doesn t have a multifunctional character, and must be seen and assisted by governmental institutions with the aim of provide a better quality of life to everybody in the city, be it through community projects or specific projects that stimulates the activity. In this specific case, the urban agriculture in Santa Maria - RS was studied, based on a sample formed by poor families, where the mentioned activity was shown as a feeding complementation, mainly, supplying fresh products, which are free from chemical products, besides providing the feeding and nutritional security of them. It can be also attributed to this urban agriculture a significant reduction in the expenses with food, and even an increase in the income with an eventual selling of these products. The research is divided into 5 chapters which respectively treats: the problem and its importance (where the objectives of the present work is presented); a bibliographic review (agriculture origin, the urbanization problem and the arising of a urban agriculture, the urban agriculture concept, the urban agriculture in the past and nowadays, the objectives and contributions of this agriculture, who are the urban agricultures, types of urban agriculture, the urban agriculture and the public politics); the methodological concepts used (specifying places and sample); the results and discussion of the collected data and the author s main considerations about it.