Sucessão, formação e migração: destinos de duas gerações de agricultores familiares do alto Jequitinhonha, MG

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Kênia Fabiana Cota
• Orientador(a): Ribeiro, Aureo Eduardo Magalhães
• Banca de defesa: Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Lavras
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: DAE - Programa de Pós-graduação; Pós-graduação stricto-sensu em Administração
• Departamento: Departamento de Administração e Economia
• País: BRASIL
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sucessão; Formação; Migração; Agricultura familiar; Alto Jequitinhonha; Sucession; Formation; Migration; Family agriculture
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ_NÃO_INFORMADO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufla.br/handle/1/2396

Family agriculture is responsible for a great part of the food supply, for most of the productive occupations and for maintaining the fundamental characteristics of rural Brazilian. In spite of its socioeconomic and environmental expressiveness, of its interactive capacity with other social and economic activities, it was observed, mainly in studies done in the south of the country, that starting from the decade of the 1990´s the family establishments are losing their successors. That research has been demonstrating the masculinization and the aging in the field, the intense migratory process, more possibilities for an education, higher city-country integration, the dissatisfaction with earnings obtained from agriculture, and the strenuosity and the negative image of agricultural work as causes of the demographic transition. In view of this, the objective of this study was to verify if the youth of the High Jequitinhonha Valley will stay in the field and be occupied with family agriculture. The study looked to identify the “standard” of succession in family agriculture; the formal mechanisms (school) and traditional (cultural) of qualifying the youth, and to verify if the demographic transition interferes with the succession process. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research was used as a methodological presupposition. The case study was carried out in the municipal district of Turmalina and Veredinha, in the Jequitinhonha River Valley, Minas Gerais, using focused type interviews, life history method, family generation information collection and non-participant observation. The results of the research indicated that, between two generations, a 27% decline of youths which were occupied in the rural enviornment when compared to the parents' generation - 44% occupied in agriculture - and the children's generation - 32% rurally occupied, as family farmers. The study indicates that in the High Jequitinhonha Valley the youth with higher formal education, that assume a family unit a little more aged than the previous generation, will stay in the rural setting. However, more prepared and nature to face the challenges which will be encountered in the future.