Agroforestry backyards in the Araguari River Valley, Amapá state: floristics, management and uses
Environmental changes. Socio-environmental alternatives. Food. Income Production.
Hydroelectric projects have affected the natural dynamics and the life of small Brazilian rural products, as regards impacts on subsistence, health, in addition to the loss of vegetation. However, despite the studies, the questions regarding these remain, so it is essential to use environmental perception for more complex assessments. Based on socio-environmental changes, as locals seek new alternatives for using the environment, in this sense, agroforestry systems have been recommended. One line of these systems are agroforestry yards, a coordinated land use system, mostly family labor, equipping an aggregate management of trees and shrubs of various uses, with crops and the presence of / or animals. In this sense, we will seek to characterize the agroforestry yards of small rural producers in a stretch downstream of the ferreira gomes energia hydroelectric plant, considering its socio-economic structure, floristic, ethnobotanical composition, the soils, and what is its role in the face of the interference of this hydroelectric plant in the conditions socio-environmental aspects of the region from the perception of these local farmers. The study area extends along the banks of the Araguari River, covering the municipalities of Ferreira Gomes, Tartarugalzinho and Cutias. In the data collection, the properties that meet the research criteria will be considered, as well as in these, the socioeconomic, ethnobotanical, socio-environmental perception forms will be applied to the interviewees, in addition to the 100% floristic inventory and collection of soil samples. Subsequently, all data will be organized and tabulated in the Microsoft Office Excel 2016 program, specifically for socioeconomics, ethnobotany, and socio-environmental perception, graphs and tables will be constructed from that. The phytosociological parameters will be analyzed by the Fitopac software, as well as the soil analysis will be carried out by the EMBRAPA Amapá soil laboratory. From the results generated, these will be discussed based on the specific literature searched in academic databases. In this way, the expected results are the survey of the main existing ethnospecies in the area and indication of use by rural producers; determining the socioeconomic and food potential of backyards; the expansion of knowledge about forestry arrangements, their composition, structure and productivity for family farming in the face of constant changes and impacts caused by large hydroelectric projects in the region.