01981nam a2200277 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000200006024501490008026001830022930000160041252010280042865000130145665000120146965000110148165000110149265000130150365000250151665000330154165300230157465300110159765300260160870000290163470000200166370000200168319365442022-11-10       2012    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aSILVA, D. da F.  aUrban agriculture in the Amazonbstrategy for promoting food safety and local development in the insular region of Belem.h[electronic resource]  aIn: SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT WORLD CONGRESS, 12., 2012, São Paulo. Sustainable Growth and Development: Challenges and Needs of the Twenty-First Century. [S.l.: s.n.]c2012  ap. 104-107.  aThis study demonstrates how the promotion of food security through actions and mechanisms of technology transfer (TT) contributes to the development of local communities in the insular region of Belem. The food security was ensured through training of community workers, dissemination and demonstration of agricultural technologies for cultivation in peri-urban areas aiming the subsistence consumption and marketing of the surplus. The local development was achieved, from the community involvement in the adoption of transferred and developed technologies by research institutions and in motivation of building social capital and empowerment of families served, with the possibility of formation of public policies for promoting the right citizenship. At the end of the process of TT, the final beneficiaries of activities become co-active participants in the process, generating a wide dissemination and access of technological information, contributing to the community development of their group and the groups around.  aAmazonia  aCassava  aAçaí  aBanana  aMandioca  aSegurança Alimentar  aTransferência de Tecnologia  aAgricultura urbana  aBelém  aDesenvolvimento local1 aMODESTO JUNIOR, M. de S.1 aNOGUEIRA, D. P.1 aSILVA, E. S. A.