A sucessão da sustentabilidade: jovens rurais e o legado da agricultura familiar sustentável

Abstract

This labor presents a investigation about a perception of the rural youth about socio-environmental issues. By relating the themes rural youth, succession in family agriculture and environmental sustainability, pursuits verify the existence of a perception and a prepare, among young people, to be protagonists of succession socio-environment on the family agriculture. The research presents cases of four young family farmers that are consolidating the sucession on their families’ properties, whose agricultural practices notions of environmental sustainability are observed. The datas were coleted through the interviews realized during visits to the properties of the families, in the months of October and November 2018. For the accomplishment this labor were addressed theoretical references pertinent to the subject, that dialoguing with the analysis of the datas collected through the interviews, made possible the knowledge about the proposed theme. The obtained results lead to believe that the rural young people that currently stars the family farming, through the succession in paternal property, search a stable rural, quality of life, autonomy and power of decision, and appreciation the farmer's profession. Perceive the necessity of the environmental preservation and the management adequacy of the natural resources, in productive activities and other actions carried out in the property, to environmental legislation, considered by them a fundamental implement for guarantee the balance of the environment. Stands out the need for deepening of these perceptions through the studies with greater comprehensiveness, and that come to subsidize the action planning more effective of environment education turned to rural development. Concludes that the new generation of family farmers reflect, in their practices and lifestyle, the influences, teachings, and culture that were transmitted to them in the succession process. However, are open and susceptible on the search for informação e knowledge for reinvent the their practice when change is necessary. The environment education revealed, in this research, as a fundamental piece in the mediation between tradition and the science in rural areas.