Capital social e arranjo produtivo local: um estudo de caso pingo d'água

Abstract

Several states and Brazilian countries already have adopted investment programs to the local productive arrangements (LPA's) that involves by micro, small and median companies. In the State of Ceará, 37 LPA's were identified which were formed in a self-organized way. However, most of the researched arrangements presented a reduced innovative capability, due, among other factors, to the reduced stock of social capital. Besides that most of the studies on LPA's has given little attention to the local productive arrangements of agricultural nature. This study intends to verify the presence of four essential elements: social capital, the collective strategy of production organization, collective market strategy and political- institutional articulation in LPA, of irrigated agriculture, called “Drop of water” in Quixeramobim, Ceará. It was used primary and secondary data that were obtained through bibliographical and documental researches, case study and field researches. The resulted were verified through of tabular and descriptive analyze. Inside the arrangement analyzed we could verify the involvement of several partners' from different segments that participated in higher or lower degree. This involvement of several partners” establishing important instruments for introduction of innovations of product, process and organizational creating new competences and gains competitive advantages. This cooperation net formed by these economical agents was facilitated by the accumulation of existent social capital inside the arrangement that is promoting its good governance. However, it was verified the existence of obstacles related to the inexistence of inappropriate training centers for qualification of the producers, absence of research laboratories and lack of more appropriate credit lines adjusted producer's reality. In spite of these problems, we can conclude that there was gain of resulted from the collective efficiency that was created by this productive gathering. This arrangement is a proof that with some social organization of the local actor's will be possible to change the difficult reality of the families that eam from their income agriculture in the zone semi-arid of the of Ceará.