Áreas com potencial para agricultura urbana agroecológica e educação ambiental na cidade de Palmas, Tocantins

Abstract

Urban agriculture is a strategy for empowering people involved in this activity, maintaining the urban environment and improving the population's quality of life. Agroecology can be the key to building agrifood systems that fight hunger and promote sustainable agricultural practices, and this fact also happens through urban agriculture (AU). Urban agriculture provides the opportunity for needy families to earn an income by growing food for consumption and/or commercialization. In addition, urban agriculture promotes our purpose for idle spaces in the urban environment, as well as the appreciation of the environment. Given this scenario, this work seeks to present the public policies and initiatives of Urban Agriculture in the municipality of Palmas/TO, demonstrate through maps the public areas with potential for agroecological urban agriculture projects in the study region and propose the Agroecological Gardens project, with the inclusion of environmental education for vulnerable communities in the city of Palmas/TO. With this, it is intended to establish inclusive actions to strengthen the agroecological transition in urban family farming and in the collective construction of new sustainable practices of production and environmental education. As a result of this work, the main urban agriculture initiatives in the municipality were exposed, as twelve areas with potential to develop agroecological urban agriculture in the municipality of Palmas/TO, in the extreme North and South regions, were mapped, as they are places with a predominance of vulnerable families.The Agroecological Vegetable Gardens Project was also proposed, in order to promote development and ensure awareness focused on environmental conservation, supported by organizations involved in agroecological insertion, environmental education and food and nutrition security.