Desenvolvimento territorial rural: análise do Território Sertão de Minas induzido por políticas públicas a partir dos anos 2000

Abstract

This work analyzes the Sertão de Minas Territory located in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, which was induced by public policies to approach rural territorial development starting in the year 2000. Thus, in order to reach the research objective, a brief recovery of territorial development in Brazil, with emphasis on the main analytical elements; the interest of the research is to understand the possible results that rural development policies have contributed to the development of depressed rural regions, as well as the unfolding of public policies that led to the creation of mining territories. The territory of Sertão de Minas was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, by a set of data, which characterized its profile in geographic and demographic terms; social and housing; economic and productive. The analysis of these data allowed explaining the socioeconomic phenomena that impacted the life of the resident population in each municipality in the Sertão de Minas territory. The results of the research indicate that public policies in the municipalities of Sertão de Minas have reached the most vulnerable populations due to the improvement in social indicators that have been analyzed in recent years. It is concluded that the policies directed to the Sertão de Minas territory should be expanded to include more local population and not cease, as it has been occurring in the current government.