Estratégias socioeconômicas da agricultura camponesa a trajetória de vida de uma família de agricultores no assentamento Filhos de Sepé, Viamão - RS

Abstract

The case study in question, which depicts the life story of a family of farmers, is not intended as a sample of the universe, from quantitative data, but brings illustratively some aspects of reality that are in line with the theory. The paper analyzes the socioeconomic strategies adopts by farmers of peasant base. Through the life history methodology the study describes the trajectory of a family of farmers coming from the northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul who migrated to the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre by inserting the struggle for land and agrarian reform organized from the Movement the Landless Workers. The survey was conducted in the settlement of Filhos de Sepé, the city of Viamão, RS and intended to understand how peasant farmers responded to agricultural modernization processes remaining in the field despite the hostile conditions imposed on them. From an economic point of view, the struggle for autonomy and mastery of resources, co-production between the self-consumption and the market insertion in cooperative processes and pluriactivity were some of the answers that the family searched found. Among the prevailing social aspects are linked to the possibility of education for their children, community life and the possibility of sociability.