The Vulnerability of the Family Agriculture in nunicipalities in CearÃ: The case Baturità Massif

• Autor(a) principal: Maria Jordana Costa Sabino
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFC
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10981
• topic: Ãndice de Vulnerabilidade; Agricultura Familiar; TerritÃrio Rural MaciÃo de BaturitÃ; Family Agriculture; Vulnerability Index; Territory Baturità Rural Massif; ECONOMIA DOS RECURSOS NATURAIS

This research aims to analyze the main counties belonging to the Territory Baturità Rural Massif, Cearà State of Brazil, compared to other cities in this State, according to the vulnerability degree of activities involving family farmers. The methodology consisted first in adopt the construction of a Vulnerability Index of Family Farm Agriculture (IMVAF) by using a set of ten (10) variables. The Index seeks to measure the degree of vulnerability of Family Farms in all over the cities of CearÃ, in order to compare with those estimated to the thirteen (13) counties of Baturità Massif. The study was based on two types of analysis: at first, all the counties of the Cearà State were analyzed in relation to the degree of vulnerability of Family Farming, through their respective IMVAF. Second it was made a survey in the counties belonging to region of the Baturità Massif in order to conduct the empirical analysis and with results coming from the secondary data. The construction of IMVAF, together with the use of cluster analysis, resulted in formation of three groups classified according to the degree of vulnerability of the family farms in each county. The results showed that only 22 of 184 (11.96%) counties in the Cearà 11.96% had a low level of vulnerability. The Family Farming in most counties of Cearà State are including in the cluster of medium to high vulnerability. Among the indicators that best differentiated the groups was the variables âentering into the marketâ; and âthe use of animal traction or mechanicalâ. The Baturità Massif Rural Territory presented an average IMVAF of .632. This value showed do not to be different from Rural Areas of Cearà State. Of the thirteen counties that belong to the Baturità Massif, only one (Pacoti) showed low IMVAF. In relation to empirical research, it should be noted that the situation in the farmers visited in the counties is very delicate, setting up, so short of envisioned by the results obtained by calculating the IMVAF. Although there was a time difference between the collecting of primary and secondary data, it can be infered that difficulties are persistent and that in some respects the change of results was negative.