Agricultura urbana e periurbana em Dourados, MS

Abstract

The Urban Agriculture and Periurban (AUP) in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, understood as the production of food in intra-urban areas and their surrounding areas or suburbs, was the object of research with a view to producing a diagnosis of this local reality, although that contributes to a significant portion of feeding urban populations, being known and practiced empirically for many people, it has not received due attention in academia. For this we used the primary resource survey data to the field, to be compared with data from literature on studies of the same subject produced at various locations. The results on food production, environmental services and social benefits generated by urban agriculture in favor of the society were relevant and positive. Encourages therefore conducting further studies to expand knowledge about the complexity of this reality at the same time calling attention to the need for greater support and encouragement to this activity so that may contribute further as a sustainable productive alternative, integrator and developer of ecologically balanced territoriality.