Units of family agriculture and natural resources in the Amazon suffer severe negative impacts due to: the lack of sustainable alternates in the use of agricultural areas, and the expansion of exploitative predatory logging, extensive stockbreeding and large scale mechanized agriculture. Integrated systems of management of natural resources involving technologies that mitigate environmental impact represent sustainable alternates to small farmers and natural resources, once the adoption of more profitable technologies which cause less environmental impact help reverting the rural exodus. Therefore, the transfer of alternate systems developed by research and by family farmers seem undeniably necessary, as well as the identification of alternate systems, and their validation. This project aims to transfer technologies for the recovery of altered areas, and to offer sustainable alternates to the logging business, to the burnings based in agro-ecological principles, based in the sustainable use of the soil and with the intention to improve the family farmer's life quality. Training activities, technology transfer (TT) and sustainability evaluation of production systems will be developed with the farmers' direct participation. The participatory evaluation is a process by means of which the people gather together and develop knowledge centered in action and change. It involves the members in the evaluation of a program, of a community evaluation, analysis of specific policies or other types of investigation. It's a process that aims to answer questions such as what do they want to obtain, what is the current situation and how can they improve it. It's important to outline that the guidelines for this project are based in necessities identified in the communities, through participatory evaluations done by projects which are already being executed and which motivated this proposal. The target public will consist of extension staff and associations of family farmers of Pará's northeast. The main expected result is that, by the end of the process, the final beneficiaries of these activities will be active co-participators in the TT process, generating a great cycle of disclosure of and access to technological information, as well as conservation of natural resources of the Amazon.

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