COOPERATIVISMO E O DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIOECONÔMICO DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR NO BAIXO TOCANTINS, AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA

Abstract

This work brings a focus to discuss, in the context of the Amazon, the cooperatives as alternative to face unemployment in search of opportunities for inclusion and vertical integration strategies and promotion of productive chains in the context of local development and sustainable territorial processes.The objective is to draw a cooperative profile in the Integration Region Tocantins "Lower Tocantins" featuring family farming within a socioeconomic perspective in the context of the Amazon. This work is part of the diagnosis made by the Technological Development Incubator and Innovation Cooperatives and Solidarity Enterprises (INCUBITEC) of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará Campus Castanhal (IFPA Campus Castanhal), in partnership with the Trade Union and Organization Brazilian Cooperatives in the State of Pará (OCB / PA). questionnaire were applied and referred to statistical analysis Diagnostics Cooperative Paraense 2018, conducted by OCB System / SESCOOP-PA (National Cooperative Learning in the state of Pará), and was also performed literature review. The questionnaires were applied between June and July 2019, with cooperatives assisted by INCUBITEC and / or active registered in the OCB system / PA. They are driven by employees and technicians of the incubator, as well as employees of OCB / PA and students of master's IFPA Castanhal. In this work, it was concluded the high importance of cooperatives in the Lower Tocantins, following a perspective of social, environmental and economic sustainability, and the strengthening of traditional populations including riparian, mestizos, Indians and Maroons. As well as contributing to the development of family farming and plant extraction and recovery of native Amazon products, featuring the sociobiodiversity. as well as employees of OCB / PA and students of master's IFPA Castanhal. In this work, it was concluded the high importance of cooperatives in the Lower Tocantins, following a perspective of social, environmental and economic sustainability, and the strengthening of traditional populations including riparian, mestizos, Indians and Maroons. As well as contributing to the development of family farming and plant extraction and recovery of native Amazon products, featuring the sociobiodiversity. as well as employees of OCB / PA and students of master's IFPA Castanhal. In this work, it was concluded the high importance of cooperatives in the Lower Tocantins, following a perspective of social, environmental and economic sustainability, and the strengthening of traditional populations including riparian, mestizos, Indians and Maroons. As well as contributing to the development of family farming and plant extraction and recovery of native Amazon products, featuring the sociobiodiversity.