AUTORS
GABRIEL MEDINA, CAMILA ALMEIDA, EVANDRO NOVAES, JAVIER GODAR and BENNO POKORNY
Key words
Rural development
Agricultural policies
Family farming
Indicator Socio-economic
Competitive bussines
Green revolution
Challenges
Resilience
Investiment technology
Quilombolas
Caipiras
Posseiros
TOPIC GENERAL
This study analyzes the spatial distribution of development
conditions for family farmers in Brazil, discussing the challenges
and potential for sound rural development.
A LESSON FROM BRAZIL
DEVELOPMENT CONDITION FOR FAMILY FARMING
Key words
- Rural development
- Agricultural policies
- Family farming
- Indicator Socio-economic
- Competitive bussines
- Green revolution
- challenges
- Resilience
- investiment technology
- Quilombol
- Caipiras
- Posseiros
4. Report on analytical findings
Comprehensive Picture of Family farming
5. Results and discussed
(c) Strategies
(b) Context
And just 5.45% belong to cooperatives.
No more than 24.46% are highly integrated into markets.
Only 33.81% adopt basic technologies such as soil fertilization
68.26% having access to electricity.
Farmers also face an unfavorable institutional context with only 12.77% benefiting from agricultural policies.
6. Conclusions
Key words
- Rural development
- Agricultural policies
- Family farming
- Indicator Socio-economic
- Competitive bussines
- Green revolution
- challenges
- Resilience
- investiment technology
- Quilombolas
- Caipiras
- Posseiros
An alternative rural development approach is needed and it
has to evolve from the one-size-fits-all current approach to
encourage local potentials.
Such results suggest an abysm between the present situation
and the one required for family farming to realize its potential
role in poverty alleviation, food security and economic
growth.
3. Methodologically assessed and analyzed
* Brazilian Agricultural Census of 2006
* Law n 11.326, July 24, 2006
* Definition of family farming adopted
by FAO and INCRA.
The municipalities received a score from 1 to 5 according to their correspondence quintile (e.g., proportions of 0–20% are associated to one point, between 20% and less than 40% got two points, etc.).
2. The factor shaping farmers performance
Strategies
Socio-economic Integration
Integrate into Markets
Adopt Technologies
Context
Access to Infraestructure
Agricultural Polices
Assets
Capital
Family Labor
Land
1. Insights into the Family form sector
Family farmer in Brazil
In spite of differences between all these groups, often they share common characteristics such as social marginalization in relation to large farmers, reliance on family workforce, poverty, isolation, informal land tenure, and high spatial mobility.
