This work is the result of an ethnographic study in a small riverside community of the Amazon flooded area, emphasizing its particularities in relation to the use of natural
resources. The subject of the analysis was a smallholder agricultural project, which was
developed by implementing the results of scientific research on the participatory
management of natural resources. Technicians from Mamirauá Institute and the peasants
met periodically to evaluate the project’s processes and results. This study contributes to the
understanding of the impacts of investments in agriculture, enabling an interaction between
processes of reflection and action. The main objective of this dissertation is to assess a situation of social
intervention directed at the sustained management of agricultural produce in a protected
area of flooded forest (Sustainable Development Reserve). This study has indicators which contribute to the understanding of the impacts of
investments in agriculture in a small community called São Francisco do Aiucá, enabling
interaction between intention/implementation based on the understanding of the results and
the evaluation of the social intervention. Using some indicators, built through the use of participatory methodologies, it
was possible to analyze changes in the economic activities of São Francisco do Aiucá, and
other forms of natural resources use, identifying ways to both diversify the crops and
undertake new alternatives for the commercialization of the produce.
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