Evaluation of the Environmental Education Agro ecology Subprogram in La Cabaña community, Pinar del Río (Cuba)

Abstract

The implementation of the Environmental Education Agro ecological Program, in the rural community La Cabaña in Pinar del Río city, in the period (2003-2013); provided the inclusion of the environmental dimension in the agrarian processes that are carried out in that community, under the principles of the environmental education; promoting the use of agro ecological technologies in soil management, on the base of a sustainable agriculture. After diagnosis different indicators were found, it was proven that didn't exist evaluations of the environmental impact of the economic-productive activities that are carried out in La Cabaña. It was also verified, the importance that the actors linked to the processes of administration of the program attribute to the execution of an evaluation of this kind. For it, with this study it is pursued to evaluate the environmental impact of the Environmental Education Agro ecological Program, implemented by the Botanical Garden in the rural community La Cabana, starting from approaches and indicators. As investigative techniques they were applied, the participant observation, the interview in depth and the questionnaire to internal agents, local leaders and residents of the community, implied in the activities of the program. In the investigation it is opted by an ex-post evaluation, because the implementation of the first phase of the program arrived to their end. For the design one kept in mind a non experimental model. Among the reached results, it may be found: the assimilation of knowledge on the part of the community inhabitants on thematic environmental as, the biofertility use, the alternative circulation of the products and the importance conferred to the proposals of the agroecology, in the concerning thing to the sustainable land management.