Territórios rurais: gestão social do desenvolvimento sustentável no Velho Chico

Abstract

From the year 2003, the Brazilian federal government, following "recommendations" of multilateral international cooperation agencies, has implemented a program of sustainable development of rural areas, whose focus is directed, basically, for the organization and strengthening of family production and vulnerable rural classes (campers, settlers, maroon communities, Indians etc.). The Program of Support to Sustainable Development in Rural Areas "revealed" in the State of Bahia 24 rural areas by the end of 2006, with the core strategy to manage the social development process, namely the gradual inclusion of rural social classes historically less favored the process of territorial planning. The research in question sought check for compatibility between the type of intervention and the ideal condition for sustainable development of a rural area, using the case of the Territory Old Chico. Through social management program, assess whether it is effective Sustainable Development Territorial Development (DSTR), first, the program, because it is the social management strategy (intervention) to achieve sustainable development - and, second, the ideal for which aspects of the countryside local or regional constraints represent the most important.