Estratégias de sustento quotidiano e de sobrevivência e sua relação com a disponibilidade dos recursos naturais e emprego: Estudo do Caso do Posto Administrativo da Manhiça

Abstract

This degree work, entitled "Daily livelihood and survival strategies and their relationship with the availability of natural resources and employment: Case study of the Manhiça Administrative Post", seeks to contribute to the knowledge of the spatial variation of everyday livelihood strategies and survival of the population in areas under traditional systems of natural resource use. It seeks to show the relationship between the population and the way in which this dc uses the natural resources and employment available locally to satisfy their needs. daily needs; the importance of inter-territorial relations in attracting resources for daily sustenance and/or survival through commercial relations and migratory work and, finally, the challenges imposed by HIV/AIDS in shaping those strategies. After an important review of the bibliography on rural poverty and employment and food security, existing in the libraries of the various faculties of the University Eduardo Mondlane, a questionnaire was produced and applied to a sample of 129 households in the study area. From the sample results, in conjunction with other data collected in the field, it was found, hierarchically, that: most of the households in the study area live their daily lives based on agriculture. Other households live on the basis of employment (salary), commerce, “business” and forestry and fishing. For most households, agricultural products harvested on their own machamba last between 3 and 4 months. Thus, in times of famine, households resort to buying food and others receive remittances from migrant family members. There are those who depend on “ganho-ganho”, food donations made by neighbors and friends, and even those who resort to “food for work” programs.(TRADUÇÁO NOSSA)