Extensão Rural

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Authors: Marielen Priscila Kaufmann, Lia Rejane Silveira Reiniger, José Geraldo Wizniewsky, Marlove Fátima Brião Muniz

The centenary experience of maintenance and conservation of landraces in Ibarama-RS, was being rescued and valued since the 1990s from the efforts of Emater/RS-Ascar and support of other institutions such as the Union of Rural Workers and NGOs. Over the years, other institutions such as Embrapa and UFSM contributed to the research and appreciation of experience. The aim of this study is to characterize the maintenance strategies of conservation of creole agrobiodiversity in Ibarama and report favorable and limiting conditions to full development of this activity. Emphasizes, therefore, the presence of municipality technical assistance and partnerships were important for the activity, in order to stimulate scientific production related to the creole agrobiodiversity, the dissemination of experience and encouragement to the rescue of new species and creole cultivars, in addition to increasing the number of guardians. The organization of seed production in larger scales and produced based on ecological principles are the future intentions of this group which that joins efforts to act in the Guardians of Creole Seeds Association, entity that included the main actors of this experience.

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Authors: Edna Lopes Miranda, Ana Louise de Carvalho Fiúza, Sheila Maria Doula

This study aimed to understand the possibilities of the familiar farmers collective organization from the routine sociabilitiy practices. It was analised, particularly, how the familiar farmers from Zona da Mata Mineira used to develop their collective practices of productive organization in coffee cultivation. The research can be characterized as cross-sectional, relying on twelve (12) interviews to the familiar farmers that live in a rural community in São Joaquim, Araponga municipality/MG. The results showed that in the farmers perception the productive organization had a common meaning, of searching improvements in the life and work condition in the field based on the “union”, “mutual help” and “solidarity”. It was clearly found a cultural trendy by the interviewers to recognize themselves as “familiar farmers” and also as participants of this process, regarding that their social representations come from a discourse where the small farmer is valorized and recognized by thier experiences. Finally, the farmers social representations about their productive organization have also an identity construction from the setting relationships with the territory and with the culture through values, beliefs and custos.

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Authors: Murilo Didonet de Moraes, José Roberto Rambo, Omar Jorge Sabbag

The food purchase programme (PAA) is a public policy focused on the commercialization of agricultural products implemented in the year 2003 in Brazil. This paper aimed to analyze the efficiency in the use of resources of the PAA in with Simultaneous Donation mode (CDS-PAA) by family farmers in the Brazilian states in the year 2011, using the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) methodology. In the analysis, the number of family farmers occupied in each state in the year of 2006 and the number of family farmers participating in the CDS-PAA by state in the year 2011 were used as inputs, and as outputs the number of people who benefit from CDS-PAA by state; the quantity in kilograms (kg) of products purchased via the mode; and the value in reais (R$) of the products acquired from CDS-PAA, by state, in the year 2011. The efficiency analysis showed that the Federal District was the most efficient state in the use of resources of the CDS-PAA, while the state of Piauí, in the Northeast region, obtained the lowest efficiency. By the nature of the returns of the CDS-PAA, one could see that only 11 in 18 Brazilian states operated in optimum conditions.

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Authors: Rosiéle Cristiane Ludtke, Anelise Graciele Rambo, Janete Stoffel

This article analyzes the mechanisms by which tobacco farming families to implement diversification initiatives and analyze the dynamics of these changes in Santa Cruz do Sul/RS. It is intended to verify motivations and production diversification alternatives in most tobacco producing region of the country, and what public policies are mobilized. This requires an analysis will be done considering negative effects of agricultural modernization, in particular on peasant agriculture, considering social, economic and environmental. The theoretical framework encompasses mobilized the risk society Ulrich Beck and the prospect oriented actor Long and Ploeg. As results, it appears that diversification initiatives manifest a self-confrontation to the risks produced by the tobacco monoculture which is guided in the dictates of the Green Revolution. This diversified production tends to strengthen the agency's capacity of farmers in response to the risks produced by this production chain and emerge from a perspective where the individual peasant, according to their reality, their way of life, seeks to minimize these effects.