Realidad socioeconómica y productiva de agricultores de mora sin espina en el departamento de Risaralda

The participatory research with farmers was carried out in order to know the socioeconomic and productive reality of blackberry farmers no thorn (Rubus glaucus Benth) from seven cities in the state of Risaralda, taking into account the technological demands of the crop. It was carried out with 328 producers, grouped into 40 subgroups, participatory methodologies were used such as Participatory Rural Diagnosis, appraisals, direct and participant observation, interviews and semistructured dialogues, group discussions and analysis, information output matrices, ideas for group reflection, talking maps, analysis of qualifications and scores, comparison of opinion groups, workshops, semistructured interviews, field days, participatory research plots and field transects, from an on-demand research scheme. It was found that the cultivation of blackberry no thorn in Risaralda is 90% of peasant agriculture, it is carried out in plots of between 0,5 to 1 hectare, under the modalities of ...

CONSIDERAÇÕES ACERCA DO PROGRAMA NACIONAL DE FORTALECIMENTO DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR (PRONAF) NO PROJETO DE ASSENTAMENTO SANTA ROSA EM ITAQUIRAÍ – MS

This article aims to analyze the effects of the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (Pronaf) on agricultural production, job and income generation in the Santa Rosa settlement, located in the Municipality of Itaquiraí / MS. After a theoretical foundation on Pronaf and peasant agriculture from the perspective of sustainability, the results of the research are presented, which was built from a quali / quantitative approach based on a case study, with interviews and semi-structured questionnaires conducted with beneficiaries of theProgram. From this it was possible to conclude that Pronaf contributed to territorial development with sustainability by raising income, strengthening the productive capacity of peasant agriculture and encouraging the local maintenance of small-scale agricultural activity, even though it has several limitations in relation to its operation and maintenance.

Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia

The Colombian countryside has long been dominated by grass and inequality. Economic theory (i.e., the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity) holds that the monopolization of land by ranchers is irrational since farming is more productive than ranching and small farms often produce more per area than large ones. Traditional explanations for the predominance of grass and the country’s agrarian structure focus on extra-economic coercion and the status associated with owning land and cattle. By contrast, this study explores the relative profitability of ranching and the limitations of peasant agriculture, which generated contrasting capacities to accumulate. It thus suggests that land markets, and the productive advantages of cattle, offer an alternative explanation.