Proposal for agroecological ATER indicators in agroforestry systems
Keywords:
Techinical Assistence and Rural Extension, Agroecology, Indicators, Agroforestry, Settlement Sepé TiarajuAbstract
The present article proposes a series of indicators to guide the evaluation of activities of technical
assistance and rural extension (ATER), in agroforestry. Its synthesis is the result of a one-
-year follow-up of a project carried out in Ribeirão Preto, northwest of the state of São Paulo,
between 2014 and 2017, which aimed to consolidate and expand the number of families that
adopt Agroforestry Systems (SAFs) in an agrarian reform settlement. The project is the result
of a state public policy, “Microbacias II - PDRS-SMA”. In the course of the follow-up activities
of this experiment, we looked for some elements that could serve as indicators of success or
failure of the ATER applied to the adoption of agroforestry systems. In this report we present a
first proposal of these indicators, pointing to the need for practical and qualitative quantification
of these indicators, aiming at their application in the monitoring of projects of this nature.
