Extensão Rural

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Authors: Gerlúcio Moura Bezerra de Sousa, Filipe Augusto Xavier Lima, Letícia Paludo Vargas, Tito Antonio Ferraz Jota, Darlyton Fernandes Lopes da Silva

Focusing mainly on the relationship between extension and gender perspective in family farming, this article seeks to understand and describe technical assistance and rural extension efforts directed toward rural women. Through a qualitative basic methodology, this work refers to actions taken by Instituto Agronômico de Pernambuco (IPA) municipal office regarding farmers belonging to Associação Municipal Mulher Flor do Campo, located in Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde. A survey adressing the actions developed by IPA, particularly between 2008 and 2014, enabled to list some significant achievements, such as the inclusion of their families in government programs, the incentive of non-agricultural activities and the technical qualification of the group. Furthermore, despite the changes in socioeconomic and productive conditions of farmers, these actions also allowed women to rescue their citizenship and self-esteem.

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Authors: Laila Mayara Drebes, Edilacir dos Santos Larruscain, Luiz Felipe Schuch, Bartholomeo Oliveira Barcelos

The study analyzed social and cultural inconsistencies between school and family knowledge about the career prospects of rural students from high school through the perceptions of teachers and students. A qualitative approach, the study was conducted as a case study and sampled by institutional means, held in the city of Tio Hugo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in October 2014. The data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, bibliographical and documentary research, and analyzed using content analysis. It was noted a gap between teaching discourse and teaching practice on school conception. The teachers do not increase the rural and agriculture in their classes, even in interdisciplinary moments. The rural students would like this integration and feel unmotivated. They dream of agricultural technical courses and degrees in agricultural sciences believing that education can meet their needs as rural students. The high school reproduces the dominant socio-cultural reality and transmits urbanized knowledge that encourage rural students to urban employment opportunities.

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Authors: Magdalen Julie Marques Machado Caetano, Nara Rejane Zamberlan dos Santos

In the constant struggle for land, a segregated population parcel finds in social movements, a way to seek conditions for individual and collective survival. Nevertheless, land ownership alone does not allow, in a short term, the establishment of productive units that will create opportunities for dignity restoration and impose some life quality. Thus, aiming to characterize the settled individuals and analyze the perception of the ways of land parcels appropriation and planning nowadays and, in a projected future as well as to identify the importance given to the arboreal component as part of the properties, this study was carried out at Itaguaçú Settlement in the city of São Gabriel, RS. The used methodology defines the study as a qualitative and quantitative research. The data collecting was performed through interviews based on a semi-structured instrument. The study allowed the reading of a social and productive image for the future. It was found that the struggle of these individuals is to establish a dignified place for living, producing and socially relate with each other. However, barriers like the lack of adequate infrastructure, technical assistance and financial credit are obstacles for the betterment of the productive practices and, an inaccessible instrument to obtain their purposes in political struggles.

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Authors: Thacya Clédina da Silva, Francisco Roberto Caporal

The aim of this study was to analyze the contributions of Law 12,188 / 2010 to the family farm in Alagoas, based on the Public Technical Assistance Calls and Rural Extension (ATER), launched by the Department of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (DATER) of Department of Family Agriculture (SAF) of the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA) for the state between the years 2010 to 2014. With the recent policy of the Brazilian rural extension as a backdrop, we tried to understand through this exploratory study, how the implementation of the Law could improve the service offered and expand the scope of the number of beneficiaries. In Alagoas, in 2006, according to IBGE, 92% of farmers did not receive technical assistance, that is, because the state was in critical condition in compliance with this policy. However, at the end of this research, it became evident that the service through the Public Call, had reached 4% of the universe of family farming, and that the promises of the public managers which would be to reduce bureaucracy and continuity of service by the implementation of this law, had not had any affect in this state.