Family Agroindustry and the SDG's: a study on the “Fonte do Sabor” of the Semi-Arid Paraibano/Brazil

Abstract

The general objective was to present the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's), Alternative Development and the rural family agro-industry of fruit pulp and which is the union of family farmer women from the Fonte de Sabor by São João II in the rural area of Pombal, in the territory of the Médio Piranhas, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The conceptual framework is based on the collective organization of women, including the production and sale of food; in alternative development theory; rural development; sustainability; and in the System of Indicators of Alternative and Sustainable Development for Family Agriculture - DASAF. The methodology followed the analytical-descriptive logic and the adopted procedures were: bibliographic research, conversation with women, institutional articulators and application of the variables that compose the dimension of organization of the DASAF Indicator System. As a result, she found that among the agroindustries that are accompanied by the institutional articulators there is the prevalence of women in the production and marketing of food, just as the "association" mode of organization prevails in comparison with the "cooperative" and that the supports institutional aspects stand out in the point of view of the Agroindústria Fonte do Sabor, both in the orientation of the extension workers, encouraging the planting of fruit without pesticides, as well as in the contribution of acquisition of equipment, and also in the training that addresses good manufacturing practices, as well as in the guidelines for adopting sustainable environmental practices.