Agricultura familiar camponesa, agroecologia e estratégias de reprodução socioeconômica

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Ferrari, Eugênio Alvarenga
• Orientador(a): Dias, Marcelo Miná
• Banca de defesa: Coelho, France Maria Gontijo , Schmitt, Cláudia Job
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Extensão Rural
• Departamento: Instituições sociais e desenvolvimento; Cultura, processos sociais e conhecimento
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Agricultura familiar; Agroecologia; Reprodução social
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Family farming; Agroecology; Social reproduction
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4130

Family farming began to be focus of government policy in Brazil, but the expertise literature inform that there is a lack of suitable theories for the understanding and uncover the actual nature of the contemporary different “agrarian groups”. This lack of understanding makes difficult the lay down of suitable policies. The present work aimed to analyze the strategies of socio economic reproduction of family farming in counties of Araponga and Espera Feliz, na Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais state, identifying the possible contributions of agroecological proposals in these strategies. The survey of secondary data showed different agricultural modernization processes in each county and an adaptation of the focal group methodology allowed the identification of a differentiation of family farming. The conduction of depth interviews with the families of farmers in both counties allowed a comparison starting from the identification and characterization of their different strategies of socio economic reproduction. The main focus of analyses were: the order associated to the agricultural production process; the relationship with markets; the maintenance of practices and rules related to reciprocity; the standards of inheritance and the presence of pluriactivity. Based on the interviewed families, it is possible to affirm that in those counties there is a family farming characterized as peasant, in which thesearch for autonomy and the maintenance of reciprocity practices can be spotted as one of the most important characteristics. It is also possible to affirm that the peasant production way is allowing families to find room for manoeuvre in the present context of treats and dispossession, developing effective strategies of social and economic reproduction. It is possible to affirm the contribution from agroecology in the socio economic reproduction of this family farming, as it fits the strategies of the peasant resistance.