Perspectivas da agricultura familiar rural no brasil no início do século XXI

Abstract

The main objective in this work was to write about the challenges and perspectives in family farming in Brazil, the brazilian agriculture stands out worldwide, being the source of food and feedstock to many countries. Inside the academic scene the debate revolves around the agrarian matter, and the impacts on agriculture in environment. The family farming distinguishes itself from the other types of agriculture, because the management is shared between the members of the family entity, besides being the source of income to thousands of brazilian families, this modality has a fundamental importance to the development of the countryside and must be valued and preserved. Over the years, some social and economic transformations caused family farming to lose its share in the formation of the family income, this work aims to analyse these transformations to verify which are the tendencies of family farming in Brazil. To the production of this work, data from the Urban Project from 2002 and 2015 were analyzed to verify information about the evolution, distribution and participation of family farming in the rural and urban area. The method of study to the production of this work was the statistical and the tecnique the bibliographic.