Agroindústria familiar rural: uma estratégia para melhorar a qualidade de vida no espaço rural

Abstract

Traditionally, the country is seen as a place that is stuck in time, where the population lives disconnected from the modern society. However, as they conquer their right to participate on the process of building alternatives to improve the life quality of the comunity, these people show the richness of their initiatives. This reflection motivated this research, which has the objective of understanding the forms of productive organization and the contributions to socio-economical inclusion of the family agriculture, promoted taking in consideration two experiences of the agro-industry rural family. In teoric studies and field work data was colected in order to help understand the universe in question. As a result, we noticed that the activity is contributing to promote the citizenhood, generating income, jobs and participation on the district´s political life.

Establishing the initial benchmark for the sustainability of Arabica coffee-growing householders in a highland region, Brazil

“…Most of these farms fit the definition of family-based agriculture (Law 11,326, of July 24, 2006), responsible for a large part of the Brazilian economy. Despite its great representation, familyfarming still needs technological investments to increase crop productivity and to provide more significant economic returns for producers (SULZBACHER; DAVID, 2009).…”