From green revolution to the speech of PRONAF: the representation of development in public policies for rural development in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Tolentino, Michell Leonard Duarte de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Cerrados (Montes Claros. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/cerrados/article/view/1373
• topic: Desenvolvimento; Políticas públicas; PRONAF; Revolução Verde.; Development; Public policies; PRONAF; Green Revolution.; Desarrollo; Políticas públicas; PRONAF; Revolución Verde.

This article seeks to reflect on the various representations of development that underlie some of the public policies for rural development in Brazil, based on the development of representations underlying to  Green Revolution and focusing later in the speech of the Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF). The study was grounded in an extensive bibliographic and documentary research. At first we approached the discourse of development in a critical way, for after we pay attention to the countryside’s analysis. For this purpose we study authors as Esteva (2000), Escobar (2000), Santos (1979) and Montenegro Gómez (2006). Subsequently analyzed the Green Revolution "Brazilian" comprising Fordism as its main development model. Then, we set out to a deeper review on the PRONAF. The PRONAF is of fundamental importance in this article, as we understand it as an extremely important policy to read this turning point of public policy for the field of change in representations of the countryside and the Brazilian rural development. As we focused in PRONAF, we discussed the shift from a Fordist model of development for a flexible development model.