A cooperação na agricultura familiar no território Alto Uruguai Catarinense (SC) Brasil.

Abstract

This research is about the cooperation of familiarly agriculture in Alto Uruguai Catarinense Territory (TAUC), located in the West of Santa Catarina State. The question that has guided this research was: How the strategies of cooperation practiced in familiarly agriculture get inserted in the process of construction of Alto Uruguai Catarinense Territory. In its goals, the study has aimed to: identify and comment on the main kind of organization of agriculture cooperation, to identify and to analyze the different strategies of cooperation in familiarly agriculture and its interfaces with the federal policy to support the development of the territory SDT/MDA; to analyze the main political and ideological conceptions present in the organization of agriculture cooperation and its contributions for the democratic autonomy increase of the cooperation organizations; to identify and to comment on the main factors that condition the effectiveness of cooperation among farmers in the construction of sustainable development in TAUC. The research has revealed a meaningful density and heterogeneity of organizations kinds of cooperation, with an increasing trend of homogenization as part of a complex process of changes happening in the communities of the countryside of the territory. It was identified three cooperation strategies in familiarly agriculture: Strategy of functional communitarian cooperation, covers rural communities, focused on the support for agriculture activities and small communitarian services, in which the city halls have become the main mediator actor, leading to deep changes in the traditional communitarian organizations; Strategy of competitive enterprise cooperation, covers the region and the state, integrated to the traditional cooperative movement, made of the few and the big cooperative organizations, keeping and reproducing the social relations of capitalism in the countryside; Strategy of self-managed solidarity cooperation originated in the center of social movements in the 80’s, made by a diverse set of formal and informal organizations articulated in a set of to small self-managed cooperative organizations. This was the only strategy that participates more effectively in the policy to support the MDA for the process of development in Alto Uruguai Catarinense Territory.