Elite do agroneg?cio em Una?: percep??es sobre pobreza e desigualdades sociais

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Daniel Coelho de
• Orientador(a): Castro, Ana C?lia
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncias Sociais em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade
• Departamento: Instituto de Ci?ncias Humanas e Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: agroneg?cio; pobreza e desigualdade social
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: agribusiness; poverty and social inequality
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Sociologia
• Link de acesso: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/643

The discussion about poverty and social inequalities is significantly relevant in a country with extreme disparities as Brazil. For this reason, the purpose of this work is understand the perception that the agribusiness elite of Una? (MG) has about the social inequality and poverty processes in the city. At the first moment, social and economic indicators are used to justify the option for the research in this environment. After that, some questions related with the subjects poverty and inequality will be deepened from a qualitative research with actors of the agrobusiness. Among the considerations that the work presents, it is observed first that the agribusiness elite in Una? is awared about the impacts of the growth of the sector in the economic development of this city, but believes that social aspects possess secondary importance in the process. In second, part of the social problems in the city nowadays is related with structural transformations that occurred in the local agribusiness, being the State pointed as the major responsible to solve them. At the third moment, is noticed that the public politics: of social assistance as "Bolsa Fam?lia" and Agrarian Reform, are seeing as inefficient, but they play a role to mitigate the perverse effects of agricultural mechanization. Finally, it is observed that the agroindustrialization in Una? is pointed as a future way to the economic development of the city and as a solution for the social problems.