Projeto Lumiar: quando os agricultores avaliam: um estudo de caso no Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

This present piece of work has been aimed at the evaluation of the Projeto Lumiar de Assistência Técnica in the settlings áreas of the Agrarian Reforms in the state of Rio Grande do Norte under the beneficiated agricurairists' point of view. The integration in their statements showed that there was a growing understanding about the importance in evaluating the Lumiar project, which was subsequently demontrated througih the monthly evaluations that followed this research, having been sent to us by the community members themselves. Lumiar may, so, be a project that is ahead of what has been put out as being its purposes, goals and evaluation mechanisms. The research showed that this project's evaluation andthose ofothers linked to Rural Development may occur in a substantive manner, possibly substituting for the logicallity ofthe reasonability which intrumentalizes such practice putting it at the service of interests other than those ofthe families which have been settled down. Plenty of points are yet to be clarified as others will depend on adjustments in the technician- producer relationship. The necessary room for this to happen has already been created, though.