Terras nas mãos dos pequenos: relações produtivas e econômicas dos pequenos produtores de cana para as usinas de açúcar e álcool do interior paulista

• Autor(a) principal: Roviero, Andréia [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127876; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/02-09-2015/000846670.pdf
• topic: Agricultura - Aspectos sociais; Pequenos produtores - Aspectos sociais; Cana-de-açúcar; Agriculture Social aspects

This research aims to understand, map and discuss the situation of the small sugarcane producer and the thematic that surround it, starting from the looks of sociology and rural anthropology. The farmer considered as small, are most in the state of São Paulo. The research methodology is qualitative. So through the application of semi-structured questionnaires, we seek to understand more about the universe and profile of rural agent. Were interviewed 40 small producers sugarcane in the municipalities headquarters of rural development offices - EDR - the central region of São Paulo, Jaboticabal and Araraquara. The objective is to understand the relationship of the producers with their land ownership, productions, choices, sociability with plants and other areas frequented by them between other questionings that reveal and help understand who is the small sugarcane producer of central State. For this, we required investigate how established the production of cane sugar in the state, with its history, challenges and impacts. Sugarcane production generates various controversies and defenses, both in the economic area and in the environmental. The actual reality of cane sugar triggers the need to rescue as his installation as main crops produced in the state of São Paulo, and understand the role of small farmers in the socioeconomic context of the central region of the state. At this juncture, are present mentions of rural universe. Be on souvenir production of a time of more contact with the rural environment, or even rural ties that were taken to the urban, since there is a feeling of belonging and connection to the land, regardless of culture produced at the moment. The field research revealed of the fact that the cane sugar, a fully oriented production for ethanol industry, did not invalidate the affection and connection to the land maintained by smallholders. The economic factor, a number of factors that carried them to the choice to ...