Atores sociais e a construção da inovação na piscicultura

Abstract

We assume pisciculture is not traditional activity for family agriculture, therefore, that research emerge from the question: how occur innovation processes in pisciculture? The major goal of that dissertation is to characterize characterize the dynamics of the innovation system in pisciculture in the county of Santa Maria, RS Brazil. After the bibliographic research in agriculture innovation, we take the option for the systemic perspective reading, particularly, with soft systems and systems of innovation approach to understand the reality object of that research. That qualitative research comprises semi-structured interviews, site visits and documental analysis. The investigation of the pisciculture history in the Santa Maria identify the major actors which interact in the making of the system of innovation in the field, emphasizing that is a dynamic system in permanent process of structuration with many actors and interests. The empirical research with the farmers has the goal to identify the modification in the fish farming system with the characterization of the technological trajectory of each one of the farmers and the process of learning related with innovative practices. The results show an affluence of innovation in the Santa Maria pisciculture with a major influence of coordination actors of the systems that make an effort to the professionalization of the farmers technics. In the analysis of the technological trajectories and the motivation for technological changes highlights the importance of the living fish marketplace as an event of major importance in the structuration of Santa Maria pisciculture system of innovation.