Peasant family agriculture is characterized by those families that, through land
ownership and access to available natural resources, seek to solve their productive
and reproductive problems through extractive, agricultural and non-agricultural
rural production. Taking this concept into account, the objective is to analyze in a
multiscale way the characteristics that enable the understanding of the conditions
related to the decision of the peasant family to seek or not to trigger pluriativity. To
this end, using an interdisciplinary approach, qualitative and quantitative data were
used, obtained, respectively, through the participant observation technique in two
communities - Mojuí dos Pereiras and Terra de Areia - located in the municipality
of Mojuí dos Campos and from the mobilization of the secondary database and the
selection of variables (land, labour force and institutional context) collected in field
research with the peasant production units. Thus, in the light of peasant investment
theory, a pattern was identified among peasant families that engage in non agricultural activities, they have restrictions on land, labour or both, while those
families that have land and labour force in conditions sufficient for their
reproduction are dedicated only to agricultural labour
|
