Agricultura familiar e as politicas públicas: o desenvolvimento rural em Amargosa/BA

Abstract

This work analyzes family farming and its insertion in public policies in the period of 2000 till 2014, situated in the city of Amargosa, in the State of Bahia. First, the concepts of family farming are defined as they occur in scientific literature and government communication, as well as the definition of family farm for the municipality. The municipal area is characterized in terms of its location, land ownership as well as agricultural production. Government policies, actions and programs that are directed towards family farms are identified. Furthermore, ways in which the farmers can be accessed and profiled are examined as well as the actual terms of participation and representation of family farms. The descriptive and analytical approach followed in this thesis enables to characterize the agricultural production and its correlation with the prevailing policies in the municipality, in order to obtain a profile of the family farmers. The municipality was chosen because of its rural characteristics that offer great potential for socio-economic development due to its edaphoclimatic conditions and the variety of crops grown. We present the difficulties that farmers are facing to commercialize their products due to the lack of more specific policies.