Agricultura familiar em microbacias do noroeste do estado de São Paulo : estrategias de reprodução e organização / Family farm in micro-basins of the northwest of the São Paulo state : strategies of reproduction and organization

AUTOR(ES)

Ricardo Alessandro Petinari

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Different survival mechanisms of family farm makes this type of agriculture a major sector in the country, even in adverse conditions. The present study has as objective analyzing the strategies of social reproduction and organization of family farmers from the EDR (Rural Development Office) in the city of Jales, upstate São Paulo, specifically in three microhydrological basins in the municipalities of Marinópolis, Santa Albertina and Santa Salete. In order to gather data to elaborate this study, questionnaires were applied and interviews were accomplished with producers from the three municipalities, particularly on the reproductive and organizational strategies developed. These producers? economic base focuses the fruit growing, particularly orange, and dairy cattle. The different strategies developed by the producers, although showing numerous combinations, show a frequent and varied interaction among them. In general, the rural producers researched are searching for alternatives to improve life conditions in their properties, allying social reproduction and organizational strategies. With these mechanisms one can have an idea of the relationship chain constituting a material situation. The strategies are linked to income mechanisms related to agricultural and cattle raising activities; the property succession as a way to lengthen the family land possession; the ways of asset growing allied to the property maintenance; the production diversification as a remarkable alternative of income generation; and the rural organization in which the activities benefiting common goodness are systematized

ASSUNTO(S)

estrutura social family farm strategies agricultura familiar micro-basin rural organization bacias hidrograficas estrategias

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