FOOD SECURITY, RURAL PRODUCTION AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE AMAZON: A CASE STUDY ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT BONAL - ACRE - BRAZIL.

Abstract

Hunger and income inequality is a topic increasingly discussed worldwide. Food insecurity is a disease that affects one part of society, and the countryside is not immune. Studies show that the farmer goes through poverty and misery, however, in rural areas the production for self has the ability to reduce hunger. However the reduction of production for self-consumption in theory, increases the level of poverty and misery. This work aims to analyze the relationship between poverty, food security and self-consumption of families settled in the Sustainable Development Project (PDS) Bonal, the municipality of Senador Guiomar, Acre. Therefore, we use the Socioeconomic Analysis project methodology of Rural Family Production Systems in the State of Acre (ASPF). With the results of the standard of living (NV) was possible to make a one-dimensional analysis of the income of families confronted with the minimum wage (MW), showing strata in the situation of poverty and misery in the PDS Bonal. It can be concluded that the production for self-consumption is an important factor to increase food security and also reduce poverty and misery of the PDS Bonal.