scholarly journals Status of the family Farming Economic and knowledge Potential from a Sustainable Rural Development Perspective

Author(s):  
Odacir Miguel Tagliapietra ◽  
Irene Carniatto ◽  
Geysler R. F. Bertolini

Many small farmers charged that Ezra Taft Benson’s farm policies were driving them out of business. The fact that the countryside was hemorrhaging population during the 1950s seemed to support their contention. Indeed, the largest wave of farm abandonment and out-migration in the nation’s history occurred in those years. This chapter explores Benson’s agrarian polices while he was the secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower administration. In specific, this chapter explores the following questions: What did he say over the course of his career about the moral and spiritual values and the economic costs of family farming? How did he respond to criticism of his policies by small farmers? How did he justify his policies and what advice did he offer? Did he regard the exodus of Americans from small farms as lamentable but inevitable? To what degree did he recommend educational opportunities or rural development policies to ease the transition from farm employment to non-farm work and urban lifestyles?


Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Paraguassu-Chaves ◽  
Osvaldo dos Anjos ◽  
Allan Kardec Duailibe Barros Filho ◽  
Fulvia Vera de Martinez ◽  
Fabrício Moraes de Almeida ◽  
...  

The struggle for a fair distribution of land consolidated social movements and put pressure on the Brazilian government to carry out agrarian reform. The government allocated rural workers to the settlements and created programs to strengthen family farming. The global concern with the sustainability of the planet has led scholars to think that family farming is an alternative for the reduction of poverty and for the preservation of the environment. Based on this principle, the objective of this study was to analyze whether family farming used in the family units of the Joana Darc III settlement in Rondônia contributes to sustainable development. Materials and methods: The research is characterized as descriptive and a case study. We use an instrument developed by Anjos17, semi-structured, divided into 6 blocks: Identification of the profile of farmers; Characterization of the production unit; Characterization of crop production; Production commercialization; Financing and infrastructure and, Life conditions. The sample granted for accessibility was a group formed by 30 (26.3%) rural farmers from the Joana Darc III settlement who cultivate different crops, harvested from a population of 114 farmers. For the sample size, the systematic sampling formula presented by Barbetta26 was used. The research project considers the ethical aspect and is in accordance with CNS Resolution 196/96. Results: The results showed that the settlers received financing from Pronaf for investments in increasing production and technical assistance from EMATER. However, the production system adopted is traditional, with the use of pesticides in crops and the use of pesticides in animals and they practice burning to clean the land. This practice goes against the principles of clean agriculture, which aims to preserve the environment. It was also found that the settled farmers sell their products below the market price, reducing their profit margin. However, all were unanimous in ensuring that they would have better living conditions compared to the life before the settlement and believe in improvements in the future. Conclusions: It was rejected the hypothesis that family farming used in the family units of the Joana Darc III settlement in Rondônia contributes to sustainable development.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Rosislene de Fátima Fontana ◽  
Raphael Miranda Medeiros Cruz

This study addresses farmers’ market as an alternative for sustainable development, within the social conjuncture of family agriculture and its productive system. Farmers’ markets strengthen the bonds between urban and rural spheres, allowing the family farmers to find in this activity an opportunity to strengthen the local market. This research aims to analyze farmers’ market as an alternative for the strengthening of sustainable practices in the city of Marechal Cândido Rondon – PR. This is a bibliographic and documentary study, with a descriptive exploratory approach, contemplating the relationship between sustainability, rural development, family agriculture and rural markets, more precisely farmers’ market in the urban environment, complemented by a case study, with field research and application of a structured questionnaire with open and closed questions for the producers and organizers of the market. Thus, it was emphasized that farmers’ market really is composed of exhibitors, mostly farmers and family farmers, that can also be considered as a business alternative for family farming, acting as a driver for sustainable rural development, since it generates income and expands the opportunity to offer the commercialized products, bringing not only financial, as well as social and environmental return for the family farmer.


Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Gabriela Núñez ◽  
Carolina Lara Michel ◽  
Paula Alejandra Leal Tejeda ◽  
Martín Andrés Núñez

This article reviews the invisibility and the recognition of rural female work in the Patagonian region of Argentina over time. The analysis is carried out based on (a) the systematisation of research articles (b) a historical study of censuses, and (c) the systematisation of rural development plans related to the subject. The article adopts an ecofeminist perspective. The results have been organised into four sections. (1) An overview of the later Patagonian integration; (2) the work of Patagonian women in history; (3) the recognition of rural production in censuses; (4) Patagonian family farming. We found out that the metaphors that relate women with the land are used to deny both rural female work and the family land use. One of its consequences is that Patagonia has become one of the most affected by extractivism. We conclude reviewing the forms of economic and political recognition, which could intervene in future planning.


Author(s):  
Cristiano Luis Metzner ◽  
Alvori Alhert

Atualmente as propriedades rurais podem não ser caracterizadas exclusivamente como produtores agropecuários. Outras atividades têm sido inseridas neste espaço, juntamente com as atividades tradicionais, com a finalidade de agregar renda às famílias e ao mesmo tempo contribuir para o desenvolvimento rural dentro de suas realidades. Este estudo teve como objetivo pesquisar o agroturismo e lazer em propriedades rurais de Marechal Cândido Rondon - PR, e discutir sua relação com o desenvolvimento rural sustentável, identificando os projetos existentes e analisando suas contribuições. A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada foi de natureza qualitativa/descritiva, com uma amostra não probabilística para representar a população a ser estudada, utilizando-se de entrevista com formulário para instrumento na coleta dos dados, e análise descritiva. Como resultado deste estudo identificamos cinco propriedades rurais que realizam projetos de agroturismo e lazer, que são: "Sítio das Orquídeas", "Pesque Pague do Alli", "Pesque Pague Paulista", "Cachoeira da Onça" e "Ricas Trilhas Verdes". Todas com mais de 10 anos de atuação em projetos de agroturismo. A maioria conta também com produções agrícolas tradicionais, sendo o agroturismo e lazer a atividade de maior renda da propriedade no momento. O valor de renda agregado aos lucros da produção tradicional trouxe melhores condições à estrutura física e social na propriedade, como também geração de novos empregos. Outra contribuição dos projetos é a continuidade dos filhos na propriedade, que, mesmo saindo para estudos, retornam para ajudar, auxiliando nas atividades. As transformações e cuidados com o meio ambiente foram aumentados devido a projetos de agroturismo e lazer terem sido incorporados nas propriedades, ampliando essa ideia também para os visitantes através de programas de educação ambiental, mesmo que modestos na maioria dos empreendimentos. Apesar de haverem poucos recursos por parte governamental, os investimentos privados seguem, mantendo os projetos em ação, mostrando o gosto que os produtores têm em mantê-los, sendo eles, também beneficiados no seu convívio social com os visitantes. Conclui-se que dentro de uma perspectiva de desenvolvimento rural sustentável, as propriedades estudadas estão desenvolvendo alternativas de trabalho, além das tradicionais do campo, com as quais estão se beneficiando e também oferecendo mudanças para a vida das pessoas que lá trabalham ou visitam, com altos ganhos também para o meio ambiente. Contributions of Agritourism and recreation for Sustainable Rural Development ABSTRACT Currently the rural properties are not caracterized mainly as agricultural producers. Other activities have been introduced, along with the traditional activities, with the purpose of aggregating better financial sources to the families and at the same time contributing to the rural development in their realities. This study has the objective of researching the agroturism and leisure in rural properties in Marechal Cândido Rondon – PR, and discuss their relationship with the sustainable rural development, identifying the existent projects and analyzing their contributions. The research methodology used was qualitative/descriptive, with a non probabilistic sample to represent the population to be studied, using a form interview as a collecting data instrument, and also descriptive analysis. As a result of this study we have identified five rural properties that perform agroturism and leisure projects and they are: Sítio das Orquídias, Pesque Pague Alli, Pesque Pague Paulista, Cachoeira da Onça and Ricas Trilhas Verdes. All of them more than 10 years operating these projects, most of them also have traditional rural production, but being the agroturism the most profitable income. This income agreggated to the traditional production profit brought better strutuctural and social conditions to the properties, generating more jobs.Another contribution of these projects is the permanence of the children in the property, supporting the activities, and even if going out to study, coming back to help out. The transformations and care with the environment were increased due to the incorporation of the agroturism and leisure projects in the properties, enlarging this idea to the visitors through ambiental education projects, despite lowly in the majority of the farms. In spite of the low governmental financial sources, the private investments are still going on, mantaining the projects in action, and the producers happy to mantain them, and also being these producers presentee in their social relationship with the visitors. At last, we conclude that inside a sustainable rural development perspective, the studied rural properties are developing new work alternatives, beyond the traditional farm ones, with what they are getting benefits and also offering changes to the lifes of the people who work or visit the place, with high gain to the enviroment too. KEYWORDS: Agroturism; Leisure; Sustainable.


Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Ana Nieto Masot ◽  
José Luis Gurría Gascón

In 2020, a special issue titled “Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities” was launched, in which 16 papers were published [...]


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