A relevância da sustentabilidade na formação acadêmica e profissional para o agronegócio

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Rafael Oliveira de
• Orientador(a): Ferreira, Manuel Eduardo
• Banca de defesa: Ferreira, Manuel Eduardo, Wander, Alcido Elenor, Souza, Cleonice Borges de, Nascimento, Abadia dos Reis, Morais, Eliana Marta Barbosa de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Agronegócio (EA)
• Departamento: Escola de Agronomia - EA (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Pessoal ocupado; Educação superior; Meio ambiente; UFG; UFJ
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Occupied personnel; Higher education; Environment
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::CIENCIA DO SOLO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12254

Individual academic training represents a crucial mechanism for empowering the workforce. As investments are made in training, new skills and competencies are developed, resulting in individual and social advantages. The development of activities related to agribusiness, like the other activities of the economy, requires a qualified workforce to make possible the numerous movements linked to the segment. Besides each academic formation's technical and recurrent issues, new requirements are constantly presented to the professionals. Within the scope of agribusiness, the issue of environmental sustainability is positioned as a subject to be widely discussed and learned by students at undergraduate and graduate levels of Agricultural Sciences. The objective of this study was to understand the relevance given to environmental sustainability in the academic and professional training of students from undergraduate and graduate courses in Agricultural Sciences at UFG and UFJ. As for the methodology, this study can be classified as applied research, of descriptive and exploratory nature, built through a quali-quantitative approach with the help of bibliographic research, documentary research, and field research, with the application of questionnaires. The research results pointed out that agribusiness development in Brazil has significantly impacted the Brazilian biomes, especially the advance of pastures over the Cerrado biome. The labor market related to agribusiness employs a significant portion of the employed personnel in the country (about 20% between 2016 and 2020). The teaching of Agricultural Sciences is concentrated in the Midwest region. Analyzing the undergraduate and graduate courses of UFG and UFJ in Agricultural Sciences, we found that these courses are conducted and guided by technical-scientific issues, i.e., they are inclined to maintain production and productivity standards, as postulated by the Human Capital theory. In this sense, environmental sustainability does not play a leading role in the teaching, research, and extension practices related to Agricultural Sciences in the studied universities, despite the urgency of the theme for society in maintaining activities related to agribusiness. Thus, it was found that the institutions' undergraduate and graduate courses presented a limited contribution to environmental sustainability.