Agricultura familiar e economia solidária: as experiências em gestão de bens comuns e inserções nos mercados por organizações rurais do estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present research consists in a study about the partnership economy which develops in the family agricultural extent in the state of Minas Gerais. It also seeks to understand the ways and concepts of farmers on their experiences in collective undertaking. The present work also directs its attention to the historical forms built to deal with the ordinary goods management, as well as the concern in understanding the insertion forms on the market, the established relation among the mediator organizations and in estimating the economical and non economical profits - material and non material outcome - resulted from collective experiences. It is a multi-case study, in which 15 collective undertaking experiences were researched on the Alto Vale do Jequitinhonha, Vale do Mucuri and Noroeste, regions of CAV - Centro de Agricultura Alternativa Vicente Nica, ARMICOPA - Associação Regional do Mucuri de Cooperação dos Pequenos Agricultores and Cáritas Diocesana de Paracatu, respectively. It was observed that the social relation characteristics, the solidarity links pre-existent on the groups influence on working out the criteria and management norms, as well as the elaboration of internal participation mechanisms and on the relation with external organizations. Moreover, it could realize that due to collective experiences farmers have reached various profits, as much as materials, regarding to the insertion on the markets and production of income to the families, as non-materials, that are the outcomes in terms of network formation and partnership achievement and influence on public policy, on empowerment, on sociability and self-affection.