Novas ruralidades e a expansão do cultivo da cana-de-açúcar: efeitos sobre o desenvolvimento rual de Goiatuba-GO
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2013-09-30
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This paper presented a study, made from a field research in Goiatuba city, in order to
observe the effects on ruralities and changes in this city through the expansion of
monoculture of sugar cane. Seventy six farms were interviewed and 11 sugar cane
suppliers too. These 87 farmers were divided into three actors’ categories -
pluriactives farmers, not pluriactives farmers and sugar cane suppliers. Overall, it
was created 32 indicators which were divided in four dimensions (economic, social,
environmental and institutional). For the environmental and social dimension were
created eight indicators, for the economic dimension were studied seven other
indicators, and nine indicators were studied for the institutional dimension. All
indicators were wheelset in the tool Dashboard of Sustainability and one sub-index
was calculated for each dimension. As from these four sub-indexes were calculated a
General Index of Sustainability - GIS. This study showed that pluriactives farmers
have the per capita income, and other economic and social indicators, higher than
not pluriactives farmers. Furthermore, pluriactives farmers category represented the
best performance within the environmental dimension. For the other two categories
the sugar cane suppliers showed better performance. Overall, the category of actors
who performed the best, according to the Dashboard of Sustainability, was the
category represents pluriactives farmers in second place was the category
represented by the sugar cane suppliers and in third place came the not pluriactives
farmers. However, this study showed that the lack of institutional coordination can be
one of the factors that limit the growth of income of the small farmers of Goiatuba city.
The reason is that the families farmers majority have little insertion in the local labor
market and in the supply of products from the property and that could supply the local
market and the local schools, what could
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CAMPOS, Washington Pereira. Novas ruralidades e a expansão do cultivo da cana-de-açúcar: efeitos sobre o desenvolvimento rual de Goiatuba-GO. 2013. 131 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Agronegócio) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2013.