ISHS Acta Horticulturae 822: VI International Pineapple Symposium
EVALUATION OF SOCIAL IMPACT OF INTEGRATED PINEAPPLE PRODUCTION IN THE STATE OF TOCANTINS-BRAZIL |
| Authors: | C.O. de Almeida, A.P. de Matos, C.E.L. Cardoso, N.F. Sanches, F.A. Teixeira, J. Elias Júnior |
| Keywords: | Ananas comosus var. comosus, impact evaluation, food safety |
| Abstract:
The evaluation of the social impact of integrated pineapple production in the State of Tocantins, Brazil, was performed according to the “Ambitec-Agro System” developed by Embrapa Environment. Evaluation was carried out in three phases. The first one referred to the identification of the farm activities in order to establish the impact achievements, the importance of the components and indicators according to the characteristics of the activity and of its local environment and definition of its level of occurrence in the farm and around it. The second phase consisted either by interviewing or inspecting the field conditions performed with pineapple growers or farm managers and with experts familiar with the level of adoption of the technologies related to integrated pineapple production. During this phase a system weighing matrix was filled out creating partial index and impact aggregates. In this evaluation eight of the fifteen farmers engaged in the project were interviewed, all of them within the same level of adoption of the integrated production technology, as well as three experts linked to the project. The third phase dealt with the analysis and interpretation of those indexes. The evaluation of social impacts included four aspects related to the impact characterization: employment, income, health and administration management. The aggregated index of the social impact of the integrated pineapple production technology in the State of Tocantins showed a positive value equal to 3.65 on a scale ranging from -15 to +15. No indicator component of the methodology showed negative value, but all were positive and different from zero. The indicators with the highest impacts were: institutional relationship, food security, training, and dedication and profile of the responsible. | |
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