RURAL CREDIT AND SUSTAINABILITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SMALL RURAL PROPERTIES

• Autor(a) principal: Opuchkevitch, Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Siatkowski, Aldo, Massuga, Flavia, Atamanczuk, Mauricio Joao
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFSC
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.sites.ufsc.br/index.php/mixsustentavel/article/view/4161; https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/246548
• topic: Family farming; Rural credit; Sustainable development.; Agricultura familiar; Crédito rural; Desenvolvimento sustentável

In view of the growing world demand for food, family farming and access to rural credit have been understood as essential factors for the sustainable development of the agricultural sector. Based on this context, this studyaimed to identify the relationship between rural credit and the sustainable development of small agricultural properties in the municipality of Prudentópolis-PR comparing rural borrowing and non-borrowing properties in relation to meeting the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability. For that, a field research was carried out, from interviews and observations, in 6 rural properties, being 3 rural credit borrowers and 3 non-borrowers. The results demonstrate that rural credit is an essential tool for the development of rural properties. Despite farmers' lack of knowledge about the application of the concept of sustainability, differences are identified in the economic and social dimensions. In general, the results demonstrate that rural credit borrowingproperties have more sustainable development measures than non-credit borrowers, denoting rural credit as an important tool that can assist in more sustainable agricultural production.