As representações sociais do projeto redes de referência para a agricultura familiar

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Evandro José da Cruz
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Estadual de Maringá (RI-UEM)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.uem.br:8080/jspui/handle/1/3225
• topic: Redes de referências; Agricultura familiar; Representações sociais; Agricultura; Projeto; Teoria; Paraná (Estado); Brasil.; Networks; Reference Networks; Social Representations; Family Agriculture; Brazil.; Ciências Sociais Aplicadas; Administração

In recent years, the network theme has gained strength and density into the organizational theory. The amount of scientific publications about this subject is large; therefore, it is still a field which is open to new constructions. Currently, studies involving the relations among the actors and their interaction processes have been emphasized in the researches about networks. Different organizations and people working in the form of mutual relations and cooperation tights around a common goal, is a current reality in several economical activity sector. From this perspective, in the late 1990s, the Parana State's Government launched the Reference Network for Family Agriculture Project (Projeto Redes de Referência para Agricultura Familiar). Its intention was to promote economical and social development for the family agriculture, from the construction of improved family agricultural and productive systems which would work as reference for other similar systems. The project should be developed from the integration among agronomical research, rural extension and family agriculturists, though leading to the executive involvement of the three actors: IAPAR (Parana Agronomic Institute) researchers, rural extensionists from EMATER (Parana State's Institute of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension) and rural producers from family agriculture. Inside this context, this study aimed at revealing the social representations the researchers, extensionists and family agriculturists have from the Reference Networks Project. In other words, its purpose was to understand how the involved actors see and represent this project developed in networks. For such an attempt, it used the Social Representation Theory. Concerning the research methodology it was characterized as a descriptive and qualitative one. The data collection was accomplished through semi-structured interviews. The analysis showed the existence of diverse representations of the Network Project, which, consequently, shows that the interviewed actors have different ways of understanding the work, specially, related to the rural producers. It was possible to conclude that, considering the three actorsarticipation, the organization in networks, in the studied project, comes into action at specific moments and it is, in a certain way, related to the actors' personal and subjective aspects which extrapolate the organizational framework shaped in network form.