Diagnóstico rural participativo para avaliar a sustentabilidade da comunidade indígena Catu, Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

In response to the unsustainable development in indigenous communities, which does not improve their living conditions and threatens their native culture, the aim of the present study is to analyze local development and the living conditions of the Catu indigenous community, located between Goianinha and Canguaretama, in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil. To that end, the knowledge of the indigenous people regarding the problems and solutions related to sustainability was relied upon. This qualitative research investigated the living conditions of the native people and the solutions to the problems they proposed using the tools of the Participatory Rural Appraisal method. The results of the study in Catu showed that the participants of the appraisal were fully aware of the community’s potentials and problems. Despite the potentials described by the indigenous people, there are problems such as low education level; absence of land demarcation, technical assistance and help from the producer cooperative; inadequate disposal of solid wastes; poor access roads and most importantly, the socioenvironmental pressure caused by the commercial planting of sugarcane and current urbanization, both of which threaten sustainability. With a view to introducing more sustainable strategies, a community action plan against exogenous actions was formulated. Given the indigenous customs, these actions are unsustainable because they endanger the lives and traditions of the community, in addition to their right to a long and prosperous life in their own land.

Sustainable Ethnodevelopment: a Scientiometric Study

“…Local development strategies, when implemented from top to bottom in traditional communities such as indigenous, have largely not raised living standards in their living environment, as stated by Silva and Filgueira (2020). Radical questions about the ideas linked to the notion of development, such as growth, progress, market reform, extractivism, excessive increase in individual material consumption, etc., converge into alternative or alternative developments to the very idea of development (SOUZA et al, 2021).…”

Caminhos Da Resistência: A Recepção De Visitantes Como Prática Social Discursiva À Visibilidade Dos Povos Originários No Rio Grande Do Norte/Rn, Brasil

“…Fato que não difere muito da realiadade de auto-afirmação étnico-racial dos brasileiros, uma vez, que estes números vão se alterando a medidade em que os cidadãos vão autoreconhendo sua ancestralidade. O espaço citado também se insere na Unidade de Proteção (UC) estadual Área de Proteção Ambiental Piquiri-Una (APAPU), conforme apresentado na figura 1.Figura 1: Localização Catu/APAPU Fonte: Adaptado de (IDEMA, 2013),Silva & Filgueira (2020)…”