Avaliação de impacto da atividade agropecuária na fazenda Santa Ângela: área em transição agroecológica no município de Pedro II - PI

Abstract

Agricultural activity is currently one of the main causes of environmental impact in the world, causing changes and compromising socio-environmental quality, causing damage to the environment that refract natural resources. One of the great and current challenges for Brazilian development is to maintain the growth of agricultural production and, at the same time, reduce the impacts of this production on natural resources. Therefore, the present work aims to evaluate the environmental impacts resulting from agricultural activity, based on a rural property with diversified production in agroecological transition in the Municipality of Pedro II - Piauí, called Fazenda Santa Ângela, due to the importance of its contribution. for sustainable local development. The methodology applied consists of verification and on-site visits of any and all impacting parameters or resulting from impact, with the adoption of Check-list and Interaction Matrix methods. In this way, the activities on the property and their due participation within the existing environmental impacts were evaluated. With the results obtained, it was found that the agricultural production areas on the farm have less negative impact on the environment than livestock activities, which may indicate that the former is in more advanced stages of the agroecological transition, therefore more sustainable in relation to other models of exploitation of natural resources. it is concluded that the area in agroecological transition can present different stages of transition for the different activities performed, and that it has caused significant environmental impacts in the socioeconomic, biotic and abiotic environment of the evaluated property