Caracterização e implicações do comércio informal de alimentos para o ecossistema familiar Viçosa-MG / Characterization and implications of the informal trade of food to the familiar ecosystem Viçosa-MG

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Brazilian family is inserted in a context of intense social, political and economical changes. In the city of Viçosa-MG and in a large part of brazilian cities, those changes have also been noticed in the informal section of the economy. Because such changes are unknown, it was aimed in this research to reduce that gap in order to offer subsidies to the decisions takers about the politics that must be implemented. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to analyze the characteristics and implications of the informal trade of food in the familiar ecosystems of the urban part of the city of Viçosa/MG, the sample, constituted of 35 people, it was obtained through the technique "snowball", being interviewed, so much in the craft market as in the open market of the city, people who marketed processed home made food. The data was analyzed with the aid of the software SPSS. The analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic profile of the food suppliers inserted in the informal section showed the preponderancy of men and women older than 40 years old, with low education level, suggesting that the informal activity is capable of absorbing individuals in an advanced age who have difficulties to be inserted in the formal section of the economy. It was also detected an expressive participation of women in the informal market of food, reinforcing the fact that activities related to the domestic extent are, still, predominantly feminine and significant for incrementing the familiar income. It was noticed the predominance of the nuclear type family in an intermediate cycle of life, with monthly income varying between one and three minimum wages, indicating that the informal trade of food in the city is constituted basically by families of income relatively low. The type of food supplied in the informal market is traditional in the city, being the technology appropriate. Few interviewees participated in some training type that aided them in the production and commercialization of food and, either, in the administration of their own business or in the administration of their financial resources. Among the reasons that took them to be dedicated to the informal activity, the need of income complementation was the most mentioned. It was also verified that in the most part of the families, husband and wife were the most involved in the informal production of food, even though it has been identified social nets characterized mainly by relatives support, considered as more durable and dense. Those social nets involved in the informal trade represent specific bonds and their presence contributes to a large autonomy of the familiar units, as of the moment that they enlarge the family possibilities of financial safety. Finally, about the economical value of the informal production and its implications in the familiar ecosystem, it was discovered that, in spite of the uncertainty of the income generated by the informal work, the interviewees, in majority, declared to be satisfied with the informal activity, affirming that the financial improvement was one of the changes more noticed after they dedicated to it. It can be concluded that the informal trade allows the families to organize themselves according to the available time, to produce according to the ability and the resources already existent at home, to conjugate moments of leisure and work, and still, to have the income as decisive factor of the informal activity, existing a consistency between this activity and the other domestic activities and a conformity feeling, in face of the situation of subsistence of the familiar ecosystem.

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informal economy informal production family família economia informal produção caseira economia domestica

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