Livelihoods and tobacco production: an analysis of living conditions in the human development perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Tanise Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Rambo, Anelise Graciele, Schneider, Sérgio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Regional (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojsrevista.furb.br/ojs/index.php/rbdr/article/view/5101
• topic: Arroio do Tigre-RS; diversification; human development; livelihoods; living conditions; tobacco farming.; Arroio do Tigre-RS; desarrollo humano; diversificación; medios de vida; condiciones de vida; cultivo de tabaco.; Arroio do Tigre; condições de vida; desenvolvimento humano; diversificação; fumicultura; meios de vida.

This article presents a study on the issue of human development and the living conditions in rural areas, from the case of the tobacco-producing family farming, in the Arroio do Tigre-RS. The objective is to present a case study from the theoretical and methodological proposal of livelihoods that contemplates the idea of development apart from the discussions on economic growth, showing the need for multidimensional analysis. The present article has as theoretical base the approach of Amartya Sen, methodologically operationalized by the prospect of diversification of livelihoods by Frank Ellis. These approaches support the methodological proposal of five dimensions of development: natural, social, human, physical and financial, that have been aggregated as from simple averages and resulted in two indexes: livelihood (IMV) and living conditions (ICV) with objective and subjective data, respectively. The instruments were applied to 38 families producing tobacco and the initial results identified that the livelihoods interfere or influence the human development of the farming families of tobacco and that these livelihoods presented is differently from perceptions.JEL-Code | L66; O13; Q12.