The growing demand for food leads to a process of intensification in the livestock production, which can result in environmental problems if the residues are not managed correctly. The interaction between the intensive ...

The general objective of this work is to understand the constructions of processes of diversifications of livelihoods in family tobacco farming, through the examination of the resources used and the multiple relationships ...

The services of technical assistance and rural extension (Ater), are configured in Brazil as an important public policy in countryside, non-formal and educational environment destined, among others, to family farmers. Ater ...

The Brazilian landholding is an issue not solved yet. The owning of the land is centered, what blocks the access by several farmers with few or no land. The Agrarian Credit (AC) is a public policy that, by financing, ...

A new economic dynamic gives rise to a scenario in the brazilian and uruguayan Pampa, a rural without producers, taken by agribusiness products (soybean or forestry in this case). A rural where the landscape has lost its ...

The present study aimed to analyze how the novelty production approach by farming families of central territory of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), influences on the sustainability of agroecosystems in agroecological ...

The study addressed loyalty, as opposed to opportunism, in 186 family farmer cooperatives participating in the “Programa de Extensão Cooperativa” (PEC) in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was realized through ...

The present thesis specifically addresses the theme of rural livelihoods and incomes, taking the family farmers of the Southwest of Paraná as their empirical universe. In general, the purpose was to understand the relationship ...