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published_or_final_version / Economics and Finance / Master / Master of Economics

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 M69 / Master of Landscape Architecture / Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning

In “Letters from the Inside,” Stephanie Anderson presents a vision for sustainable, regenerative agriculture from the perspective of someone born and raised on a conventional cattle ranch. From Florida to New Mexico to the Dakotas, she traces the stories of farmers and ranchers who are already creating such an agriculture. She argues that producers, in tandem with consumers and government, hold the power to change what is currently an environmentally and socially destructive food system. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Orientador: Ricardo Luiz Sapia de Campos / Banca: Darlene Ap. de Oliveira Ferreira / Banca: Regina Aparecida L. de Camargo / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem o propósito de mapear, discutir e entender a realidade do pequeno produtor canavieiro do Estado de São Paulo, a partir dos olhares da sociologia e da antropologia rural. Os pequenos agricultores são maioria no interior do Estado de São Paulo. A metodologia desta pesquisa é qualitativa, mas foram também produzidas amostragens estatísticas. Assim, a partir da aplicação de questionários semiestruturados, buscamos compreender o universo e o perfil desse agente produtivo. Foram entrevistados 40 pequenos produtores canavieiros, em duas sedes municipais dos escritórios de desenvolvimento rurais (EDR) da região central do Estado de São Paulo: Jaboticabal e Araraquara. A partir dessas entrevistas, procuramos entender a relação dos produtores com a propriedade da terra. Além disso, buscamos analisar as produções e as escolhas dos produtores estudados de acordo com a sua sociabilidade com relação às usinas e aos demais espaços frequentados por eles. Produzir cana-de-açúcar gera controvérsias, tanto no terreno econômico, quanto no ambiental e social. A realidade da cana desencadeia, pois, a necessidade de se resgatar a sua história, investigando, sobretudo, como se deu o processo que tornou a cana a principal cultura produzida no Estado de São Paulo. É por isso que este trabalho também tem uma seção dedicada ao histórico da produção de cana-de-açúcar no Estado. Nessa seção, arrolamos os principais desafios e impactos envolvidos na produção de cana-de-açúcar, e também buscamos compreender o papel do pequeno produtor, no contexto socioeconômico da região central desse Estado, ao longo dos últimos anos. Nessa conjuntura, estão presentes valores ligados à sociedade rural, sobretudo no que diz respeito às lembranças de uma época em que o contato com o campo era diário. Constatamos que, mesmo nos casos em que os produtores foram levados para um outro modelo de realidade, ainda existe um... / Abstract: This research aims to understand, map and discuss the situation of the small sugarcane producer and the thematic that surround it, starting from the looks of sociology and rural anthropology. The farmer considered as small, are most in the state of São Paulo. The research methodology is qualitative. So through the application of semi-structured questionnaires, we seek to understand more about the universe and profile of rural agent. Were interviewed 40 small producers sugarcane in the municipalities headquarters of rural development offices - EDR - the central region of São Paulo, Jaboticabal and Araraquara. The objective is to understand the relationship of the producers with their land ownership, productions, choices, sociability with plants and other areas frequented by them between other questionings that reveal and help understand who is the small sugarcane producer of central State. For this, we required investigate how established the production of cane sugar in the state, with its history, challenges and impacts. Sugarcane production generates various controversies and defenses, both in the economic area and in the environmental. The actual reality of cane sugar triggers the need to rescue as his installation as main crops produced in the state of São Paulo, and understand the role of small farmers in the socioeconomic context of the central region of the state. At this juncture, are present mentions of rural universe. Be on souvenir production of a time of more contact with the rural environment, or even rural ties that were taken to the urban, since there is a feeling of belonging and connection to the land, regardless of culture produced at the moment. The field research revealed of the fact that the cane sugar, a fully oriented production for ethanol industry, did not invalidate the affection and connection to the land maintained by smallholders. The economic factor, a number of factors that carried them to the choice to ... / Mestre

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The aim of the study was to find out whether or not engagement in urban agriculture for individuals and households is a response to a lack of formal wage employment in the post-apartheid period. This period is characterised by changes in the economy of South Africa which led to an observed increase in poverty and unemployment and an increase in informal employment. The study utilised both quantitative and qualitative methods to look at urban farming issues in KwaZulu-Natal. The quantitative data came from the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Surveys (KIDS), which carried out surveys in three waves spanning the period of democratic transition over a 10-year period in 1993, 1998 and 2004. This data was analysed using the statistical package STATA and employed regression modelling techniques to investigate the odds of engagement in urban agriculture, given certain individual and household characteristics, which is a particular nuance for this study. Because of its potential in food production and income generation, a smaller-scale qualitative farmer survey was undertaken in two different communities, comparing three different categories of home gardening, community gardening and market gardening in KwaZulu-Natal, using a semi-structured questionnaire. This component sought to document, in farmers’ own words, their experiences and practice of farming in an urban environment and gave in-depth insights about the motivation of the people involved, the types of food crops grown, and so on. Key informant interviews were conducted with a community of professionals for illuminating their perspectives on the practice of urban agriculture in KwaZulu-Natal. The key findings of the study are that urban agriculture is an activity that is undertaken by people seeking a survival strategy when their preferred activity (such as formal employment) is not available and it can be an activity undertaken by entrepreneurs for income generation. According to their main activity status, the types of people that engage in urban agriculture include those in wage employment and the unemployed, as well as the non-economically active. The contribution of agricultural income to total household income represents miniscule amounts, at an average of less than one percent. Regression modelling results, combining person level and household level variables, predicted more likely odds of farming for women, by a factor of 1.67. Increase in the number of years of education decreased the odds by 0.90 times. If a person lost employment, this increased their odds of engaging in urban agriculture by 1.23 times. People in the age group 36-46 years predicted the highest likelihood for participation in urban agriculture, by a factor of 2.54. Larger household size predicted odds more likely to engage while poor households also predicted odds more likely to engage, by a factor of 2.07 times. Urban agriculture is vastly heterogeneous and is undertaken by all income groups. It is a result of both push and pull factors. People engage in it neither as a survival strategy nor an entrepreneurial strategy only. It is, however, an activity in which the poor are disproportionately represented. The potential of urban agriculture to generate employment is linked to the nature of support received from government and non-governmental organisations. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

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