Pluriactivity and public policy: the case of the South of Brazil

The growth of contingent of pluriactive farm families (pluriactivity) has increasingly been accepted as important in reducing rural poverty and unemployment since at least two decades in the EU and very recently in Brazil. This paper supports that, differently from the EU, in the South Brazil, regio...

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Autor: Nascimento, Carlos Alves do
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2007
País:Brasil
Recursos:EDITORA 34
Repositório:Revista de Economia Política
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.centrodeeconomiapolitica.org:article/575
Acesso em linha:https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/575
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Pluriatividade
famílias de agricultores
políticas públicas
Pluriactivity
farm families
public policies
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Resumo:The growth of contingent of pluriactive farm families (pluriactivity) has increasingly been accepted as important in reducing rural poverty and unemployment since at least two decades in the EU and very recently in Brazil. This paper supports that, differently from the EU, in the South Brazil, region of modern capitalist agriculture, it is hard to the pluriactivity to grow through the years, and so that it can increase the public policies must be led mainly to avoid the exclusion of the small farms, their gradual abandonment of the traditional agricultural activities, and not only to offer them non agricultural occupations. JEL Classification: R23.