Banca de DEFESA: MIRELLA MEDEIROS CARVALHO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : MIRELLA MEDEIROS CARVALHO
DATA : 28/05/2021
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto, Google Meet
TÍTULO:

Behavior constructs associated with the adoption of agricultural practices in the coffee plantation of Chapada Diamantina-BA

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Pollination, Theory of Planned Behavior, Social Psychology, Ecology

PÁGINAS: 80
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Biológicas
ÁREA: Ecologia
SUBÁREA: Ecologia Aplicada
RESUMO:

The decrease in biodiversity of the main pollinators has been shown to be of concern for food security and human well-being as it directly affects agricultural production through the decrease in the stability and resilience of crops and native areas in its surroundings. These consequences occur, mainly because most of the causes are linked to economic development, for example, due to the expansion of agricultural areas, deforestation and the use of agrochemicals in extensive areas of monoculture. To solve this problem, management approaches based on the conservation of the pollination ecosystem service are being produced in the academy. However, despite the ecological contributions in relation to the management of locally located environmental resources, these approaches prove to be inefficient in decision making, as they do not dialogue with what is important and relevant for the social actors involved. Situated in this gap in relation to decision-making, behavioral approaches tend to complement these conventional ecological approaches when addressing the understanding of behavior favorable to the conservation of social actors. As a complement to these approaches, qualitative methods provide a diverse understanding of the complexity of behavior favorable to the conservation of farmers and social actors, seeking a robust understanding of behavior and its determinants, taking into account the specificities of the context and being able to raise questions that the researcher may not have taken it into account because he is out of context. However, for research in the field of Ecology, more specifically in relation to practices that impact the biodiversity of the main pollinators, qualitative behavioral approaches are still scarce. In this sense, this work sought to investigate, in a qualitative approach, the relationship of behavioral constructs with the intention of farmers and agricultural technicians involved in the coffee production of Chapada Diamantina, in Bahia, Brazil, to apply and to promote forms of planting management with high-impact practices and low-impact agricultural practices for biodiversity and the ecosystem service of pollination. Semi-structured interviews were conducted online to investigate beliefs associated with the behavioral constructs of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control of five farmers and ten agricultural technicians, according to the Theory of Planned Behavior Theory of Icek Ajzen (TCP) of social psychology. From the answers, a thematic analysis was made, using the behavioral constructs of TCP as themes. To identify the relevance of each construct, the number of presence of the categories was counted for each type of management strategy, with the categories with strong relationship being those that obtained 75% or more of citations in the responses. According to the results, Attitude, Subjective Norm and Perceived Behavioral Control are related to the intentions of technicians and farmers to use high-impact and low-impact practices for the control of pests, diseases and spontaneous herb management. According to the analyzes, we concluded that the main influences on the behavior of the interviewed groups result from the Attitude and Subjective Norm, showing that the behavioral intention of the interviewed groups is associated with how they evaluate the practices and the social influences to which they are subject. The results found in this study will serve as subsidies for an ongoing research, which aims to increase the willingness of farmers in Chapada Diamantina to adopt agricultural practices that have a low impact on biodiversity.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1090422 - CHARBEL NINO EL HANI
Interno(a) - 3062840 - BRUNO VILELA DE MORAES E SILVA
Externo(a) à Instituição - JEFERSON GABRIEL DA ENCARNAÇÃO COUTINHO
Externo(a) à Instituição - JULIANA HIPÓLITO DE SOUSA