Sustainability of agricultural model of Faé watershed using multivariable analysis

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the families living in the part of the stream Faé watershed. It was based on the existing agricultural model and it was used the multivariate analysis. Forms "cross-over" types with subjective and objective questions were applied for socio-economic and environmental study area. To observe the similarities between the studied families applied Hierarchical Cluster Analysis to data. It was identified two distinct groups. Group I was formed by families with characteristics typically agriculturalist with low income families developing their productive activities in a rudimentary way. Those families use pesticides and they represent a risk both to support agricultural model and to the lives of those families. Group II was formed by families who, even so located in agricultural environment, present typically urban characteristics. In those families there are many young people, many people with low level of schooling and they have no agricultural economic activity. Cluster analysis was efficient to separate the homogeneous groups of families in the study area regardless of geographic location.