Evaluation of sustainability in Eastern Amazon under proambiente program.

This study evaluates the sustainability of the innovative practices of smallholders who have extended their traditional farming and backyard gardening to other production parcels, such as agroforest systems in Eastern Amazon, Northeast Pará, under the PROAMBIENTE Program at Capim River Pole. According to these smallholders, these practices have assured food supplies and yields with the inclusion into the consumer market through produce diversity obtained by agroforest arrangement and increased purchase of material goods to the system. The smallholders? perceptions also permit the evaluation of the sustainability of their experiences through the ??Amoeba?? method, which consolidates economic, social, cultural, and environmental indicator