The Agroforestry Systems (SAF) can be used as a means of forest recovery and are
interesting due to their diversity of products and the sustainability of the system,
mainly in the Northeast of Pará, which has a predominance of secondary forests,
popularly called “capoeiras”, areas which can be used for its implementation. The
aim of the study was to analyze the relation between Collective Action and SAF in
the São Manoel community, in the municipality of Moju, Pará state. The survey data
were collected in the years 2018 and 2019, with the main instruments used being
historical, open and semi-structured interviews with farmers and main leaders in the
community. The data are predominantly qualitative and the procedures to summarize
were the transcription of the interviews, with the creation of tables and vertical and
horizontal analyzes of the speeches. The community of São Manoel is a small rural
village with a history of struggling against large companies to maintain its territory
and whose main source of income is native açaí. Land titling is collective and the
main issues of resource management are discussed with the Quilombola Association
of Farmers of São Manoel, which also has other duties, such as discussing the issue
of security, community organization, improving income sources, in addition to legal
representation in different instances. The results shows that the SAF arrived in the
community in 2015, taken by one of the farmers (who has agricultural training), and
had great repercussions after the community verify the success of the system in São
Manoel. The working group who has the SAF is composed of 15 people, who work
from the plants nursery to the implantation of areas through the collective effort. They
have a differentiated system of implantation of SAF, when carrying out the
management of capoeira in order to use it as an input for plant nutrition. Three
different types were found among the SAF of São Manoel, varying in the number of
species in the system, being cupuaçu, cocoa, açaí and banana the main species
implanted. The data show that the SAF had a good acceptance among farmers
because the system was brought by one of the members of the community, which
has also had repercussions in other communities in the Jambuaçu Territory.
Collective action was fundamental to the success of SAF, since most farmers
reported that they would not be able to implement their areas alone, reason why this
community strength was essential for the success of a system which aims to
generate income through diversification of production, resignifying the territory with
their occupation through productive conservation.
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