Geosul (Jul 2019)

Public policies and sustainability: the case of the Project Time to Plant in the Cariri microregion from Ceará

  • Anderson da Silva Rodrigues,
  • Ahmad Saeed Khan,
  • Eliane Pinheiro de Sousa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/1982-5153.2019v34n72p395
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 34, no. 72
pp. 395 – 414

Abstract

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This study evaluates the impact promoted by the Project Time to Plant (Projeto Hora de Plantar) about the sustainability of the agricultural producers of hybrid maize farmers from the Cariri Microregion from Ceará by building an Index of Sustainability of Production (ISP), which covers the economic, environmental and technological dimensions. Using primary source data, obtained through 210 semi-structured questionnaires, being 90 to beneficiaries and 120 not to beneficiaries of the programme. The comparison was performed by the application of the statistical inference techniques. The results show that the Index of Sustainability of Production among the beneficiaries is significantly higher than that of non-beneficiaries. In relation to the components of the ISP, the beneficiaries showed statistically significant superiority in economic and technological dimensions.

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