Pluriatividade na agricultura familiar: o caso do Assentamento Vida Nova /Aragão - Miraíma/Ceará

Abstract

The pluriactivity in family agriculture is something that is not recent and has already appeared in different ways in rural areas. It has several factors involved, such as the availability of employment in rural areas and personal skills, and it also depends on each context in which it occurs. Another important point is the issue of this phenomenon within spaces such as rural settlements, which seek to have the largest source of income for agriculture and livestock. It is important to emphasize the importance of farming activities in guaranteeing the food and nutritional security of families. In this sense, the present work has as general objective, to analyze how the phenomenon of pluriactivity occurs in the rural settlements, identifying the different types of income sources of the families, based on the Vida Nova / Aragão Settlement experience. Specifically, it aims to identify and characterize settlement production systems, to quantify the income of the families living in the Vida Nova Settlement / Aragão and to characterize the influence of the multiple sources of income on the lives and productive activities of the families. The research was mainly supported by the Agrarian Systems Diagnostic Analysis (ADSA) methodology that has a systemic approach and, therefore, provided a great source of information in a connected way about the study area. The results obtained conclude that the agricultural income obtained within the properties can not guarantee the maintenance of the families and that some families with the strategy of joining income sources of agricultural, non-agricultural activities and social transfers can guarantee their maintenance and their systems productive. Therefore, it is concluded that agricultural activities are important and have a fundamental role in the field, however, it should be stressed that the context of the field is something dynamic and dependent on factors such as public policies, and that it should be understood that other activities agricultural or non-agricultural, regardless of the type of rural community, settlement or other place, are also very valid in the family farming environment.