Agricultura familiar e ruralidade em Ouro Fino-MG / Family farming and rurality in Ouro Fino-MG

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

26/02/2010

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The debate about "new" ruralities calls attention to the other functions, meanings and destinations of rural spaces now seen not only as the place for agricultural production, but carrying traditions and a natural richness that must be preserved. In that sense family farming is evoked as potentially more diversified, less dangerous to the natural balance and more prone to keep a rural atmosphere compatible with the image of the countryside seeked by urban people. In the Brazilian context we believe that such debate must be permeated by the analyses of how differentiated processes of land distribution and economic development and the resulting kind of agriculture generate specific ruralities with characteristics such as, in the case of family farming, the maintenance of social and work practices marked by the relations among relatives and neighbours present in a interrelation society. This work follows that path, analyzing family agriculture in Ouro Fino - MG through the study of one of its many rural neighbourhoods and using the agrarian systems analyses as basic methodology. To know who the family farmers are, what are their activities, what area they occupy, what projects and hopes they keep for the future and for their children can help clarify the kind of rurality a specific reality creates and what potential it has to attract other economic activities distinct and complementary to agriculture. Corroborating with authors that defend the existence of points of continuity and rupture between family agriculture and peasantry the research here presented examines the way in which the peasant heritage persists in the context of a modern family agriculture totally integrated in the market economy. It is this continuity with the peasant heritage that allows the permanence and the preservation of a diversified and attractive environment and assures the persistence of solidarity bonds found in work and social relations among local inhabitants and neighbour communities

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agricultura familiar camponeses comunidades agricolas cultura popular desenvolvimento rural family farming peasants agricultural communities folk culture rural development

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