A agricultura familiar de Itaqui-RS: um estudo exploratório com base na análise - diagnóstico dos sistemas agrários

Abstract

This work uses the Agrarian Systems Analysis-Diagnosis approach and seeks to understand the production systems made up of family farmers in addition to economic logic. Analyzing family agriculture only by the economic bias can present analytical limits, because in this type of agriculture the main objective is the social reproduction of the family; and production systems, therefore, are not always constituted by the logic (rationality) of maximizing the use of factors of production, which is decisive in the case of business agriculture. In family agriculture, the social reproduction of the family is conditioned by the organization of production and the social insertion of these families in the social context. The general objective of this work is to establish, in an exploratory way, an initial reading that will enable later initiatives to characterize the socioproductive dynamics of family agriculture in the municipality of Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul. The methodology was based on studies already done on the production and commercialization of family farming in the municipality of Itaqui, the information was qualified with the key informants (ATER agents and leaders of the family farmers), making possible the differentiation of the agrarian space in homogeneous zones. From there, it focuses on family farming, which focuses on a particular area and advances in understanding the social insertion of this category of farmers, revealing how families have established relationships with markets, formation of associations, technical assistance, access to public policies and institutions responsible for technological innovation.