This study investigates the types of management and socioeconomic profiles related to those, in the rural properties of the Una’s Wildlife Refuge. It has been assumed that the successional agroforestry are the most favorable for the conservation of the Atlantic Rainforest biome, including the landscape scale. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the socio-economic aspects associated with the adoption of a type of management and its integration into the landscape. Several interviews were performed in 73 properties between January and May 2011. Data on agricultural systems were classified into types of management: conventional, traditional, organic and agroforestry. The results indicate the predominance of the traditional type of management in the properties of Una’s Wildlife Refuge. The socioeconomic profile found is consistent with the characteristics of the predominant type of management, the traditional. In the traditional management, we observed a greater contribution of family labor and a fewer source of income from rural labor to others. Training for agriculture was the only socioeconomic variable that indicated greater importance for agroforestry. In the landscape, the results pointed the need for adaptation of the practices used in traditional agroecosystems to the biome’s conservation goals, because 39% of the properties are within the distance of 350 m from the nearest fragment (considered the maximum to occur structural connectivity) and have this type of management.
Agroecosystems; Protected area; Landscape
