This article brings elements to estimate the hope of sustainability of present agrarian systems in the Amazonian. It makes a characterization of those systems and their productive and reproductive grounds in the Northeast Region, the most densely populated of the Pará State, and it builds indicators that incorporate, besides economical variables, variables that inform about the ecological efficiency. It intends to contribute with new perspectives for the discussions on socioeconomic development and to offer instruments to guide the institutions that decide for sustainability criteria.
