Estudo comparativo entre sistemas de certificação de produtos orgânicos nos contextos da agricultura familiar brasileira e espanhola.

• Autor(a) principal: Caldas, Nádia Velleda
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFPel - Guaiaca
• Texto Completo: http://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br/handle/123456789/2418
• topic: Produtos orgânicos; Agricultura familiar; Sistemas de certificação; Certificação participativa; Organic production; Family farming; Systems of certification; Participatory certification; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA

It has become almost a truism the allusions about of the growth in importance assumed by organic or ecological production in contemporary societies, as well as the reasons that presumably explain this increase, both in developed countries and in the context of developing countries. This process was accompanied by an expansion of certification systems, which ultimately aim to offer consumers assurance that products are consumed to meet the requirements that identify a way to produce defined as organic or ecological. There are certainly many mechanisms that are triggered to ensure this condition, since the word of the farmer, through a personal relationship and direct, to complex insurance instruments, whose overwhelming majority are operated by companies pursuing certification certified classic (by auditing) or by third party. No wonder that the certification has become a huge business that drives significant figures, but that has also been responsible for generating new mechanisms of exclusion in access to markets for peasants and family farmers. This is one of the causes to understanding the reasons and circumstances that have conspired to the emergence of what is now called "participatory guarantee systems (PGS) in various countries of the world. This form of certification does not appear as an alternative to the conventional system of certification, but as a result of socio-political process extremely important to understand the capacity of family farming to adapt to an institutional environment invariably unfavorable. The object of this thesis is to analyze classical or conventional certification and the certification and participatory network, led by Ecovida Agroecology Network, based on a crop of reality that conforms two empirical universes quite different, namely, the state of Rio Grande do South and Andalusia (Spain). What factors might cause this approach? Reasons and factors that have converged so that there was an attempt to implement a PGS Andalusian inspired in Brazil? What aspects contributed to this experience does not thrive? The research was developed between the years 2009 and 2011 based on various instruments, especially in semi-structured Interviews with farmers and members of nongovernmental organizations, technical of certification companies, government agents, consumer associations and other social actors linked to the issue of certification. This thesis focuses on the effort to answer this and other questions related to this strategy of differentiation of agricultural products, now converted into the essence of an important process of organizing of family farmers in the name of the imperatives of environmental sustainability.