Consumo intermediário: implicações para a agricultura familiar e não familiar

Abstract

This dissertation consists of two articles that aim to contribute to the research agenda on rural development in an economic perspective. The first work called "Family farming: a literature review" aims to find elements that can help in understanding the changes that pervade the universe of family farming in Brazil. For this, it was performed a literature review about the major works in the field. The results converge to a new agriculture dynamic, highlighting the family farmers. In this sense, these farmers are understood as individuals who are part of a transformation process, both of public practices, especially the subsidized credit (PRONAF), as well as the private sector, through the adoption of new technologies in agricultural production. However, it also realizes that because these agents live in the same place they work, they maintain unique characteristics such as reciprocity, the need to ensure family welfare and reproduction, aiming not just profits. The second article entitled “A comparative assessment of the impacts of intermediate consumption in family and non family farming between Brazil and the northeastern and southern regions based on the Agricultural Census of 2006” evaluate in economic terms the intensity which family and non family farming in Brazil use products classified as intermediate consumption both to the northeastern and southern regions. To develop this work we used data of the Brazilian Agricultural Census of 2006. The results discriminate that the two types of farmers are integrated into the markets through the acquisition of products classified as intermediate consumption, but suggests that there are distinctions about the intensity of the impacts of these products in the costs family and non family farming, as well as between northeastern and southern regions. In This case, it was observed that family farmers in the southern held proportionally more intermediate consumption expenditure than non family farmers. However, as they achieve a higher gross production value per ha than non family farmers, they are less affected by this expense.