A formação jurídica ambiental nos cursos agrários do Instituto Federal do Ceará

Abstract

Nowadays, agriculture is being driven by the agribusiness guidelines that aim for greater productivity and profit. Environmental problems are directly related to the increasing consumption of goods and products by modern and industrial society, which in a predatory way uses natural resources indiscriminately. In this way, the agricultural activities are utilized of predatory practices, advanced technologies and techniques that have a negative impact on the environment. Courses related to Agrarian Sciences form annual middle and higher level technicians and are, in a way, the ones responsible for agropastoral production in Brazil, monitoring from family agriculture to the large properties managed by agribusiness, and it is precisely here that the contribution of since once well trained and with knowledge of environmental legislation, it will act in the fight against predatory practices, applying legal concepts appropriate to the use of new technologies, so that they are used in a rational and balanced way and do not provoke destruction to the environment. Based on art. 225, caput, which states that everyone has the right to an ecologically balanced environment, a common use of the people and essential to the healthy quality of life, imposing on the public power and the community the duty to defend and preserve it for present and future generations. Thus, the State and the Citizen were given the responsibility to develop and plan plans and land use planning, considering the need for economic and social development. In focusing on development, the State and the Citizen should include actions that must combat pollution, preserve fauna and flora, as well as environmental systems. Discussions on the environmental impacts of agricultural activity are at the heart of this dilemma. On the one hand there is its importance for the food, health and well being of the human being, besides its local and regional economic importance; environmental problems such as the use of agrochemicals, expansion of the agricultural frontier with the reduction of native vegetation, soil depletion and erosion processes. Thus, given the importance of the theme, the agricultural courses are attracted to the discussions on sustenance and sustainability, since the environmental legal training in the agricultural courses, should deepen the knowledge about the environmental impacts caused by its activity. The conflict of interests between protecting the environment and providing economic development is a barrier that must be transposed through the training of agrarian technicians who are more aware of their social role. The purpose of this research is to analyze the presence of contents on environmental legislation in the agrarian curriculum in the IFCE. For this will be analyzed the curriculum of the technical course in agriculture, Technologist in Irrigation and Drainage and Zootechnics. In addition, the research contributed to the legal discussion, in the search for alternatives and exposition of suggestions so that agriculture and livestock can occur in a balanced and sustainable way.