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SILVA, Emiliana. Attitudes, Environment and Agriculture Survey in Azores. Rev. de Ciências Agrárias [online]. 2016, vol.39, n.2, pp.194-201. ISSN 0871-018X.  https://doi.org/10.19084/RCA15066.

Farm’s economic, environmental and social sustainability is an implicit concern in European agricultural policy, in particular to mitigate the effects of climate change. In the Azores, where agriculture, mainly the production of milk, is quite an important activity for the archipelago development, maintaining its sustainability, it requires urgent policies and programs to promote it. Since the 1980s, the interaction between agriculture and environment has reached a high level of importance in the European Union. Community programs, PRORURAL+ and POSEI, specifically designed and directed for the Azores, have been the instruments which allowed promoting agricultural practices in the region and provide environmental and economic sustainability of the agricultural sector. In this paper, the researches made in the Azores are listed, involving both environment and agriculture subjects. First of all, it is contextualized whether agriculture, presenting itself as the agricultural policies applied in the Azores, potentiate or not environmental conservation and sustainability of farms. In a second section, the influence of stakeholders in this context is discussed, analysing the attitudes and behaviours of the Azorean people towards the environment and agriculture, in rural areas. Finally, some cases-study of the Azorean agricultural reality and future prospects for its relationship in the Azores are presented.

Palavras-chave : Agriculture; Attitudes; Environment; Milk; Sustainability.

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