STRATEGIES OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF FAMILY FARMERS OF THE RURAL COMMUNITIES OF CATALÃO (GO)

Abstract

doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2016.20304

The rural areas in Brazil have undergone sweeping changes from mainly the 1970s, in response to the agricultural modernization process. This occurred unequally, favoring products for export, the South, Southeast and, subsequently, Midwest of Brazil and the large and medium farmers. In this context, the smallholder farmers were excluded of modernizing process, having employed various strategies which allow their social reproduction. With de purpose to understand the main characteristics of family farming, giving emphasis to undertaken social reproduction strategies, this paper is proposed. Empirically, there was focus to family farmers in rural communities Custódia, Ribeirão, São Domingos and Tambiocó in the municipality of Catalão (GO). For the development of this study, there have been literature review; desk research and empirical research in rural communities Custódia (inhabited by 54 families), Ribeirão (60 families), São Domingos (51 families) and Tambiocó (51 families), being applied, respectively, 19 (35.18%), 21 (35.00%), 17 (33.33%) and 18 (35.29%) interview forms with family farmers residing in these localities.