Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FabioDPM_DISSERT.pdf: 4280110 bytes, checksum: 0c638d4a6c63f6d47b12ec8d6e553807 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-20 / This study aimed to explore the process of reproduction of space from the small family farm production in the municipality of Canguaretama, specifically focused on foodstuffs of plant origin, seeking to understand the changes in agrarian space canguaretamense and its impact on small family farms the last 35 years. Since colonization, during the seventeenth century, the production of space agrarian Canguaretama was founded under a structure based on large ownership and cultivation of cane sugar. Secondly, it was being built a small space reserved for food production to meet both the consumption of property, but also for local marketing. In the centuries following the changes in the capitalist system imposed a new dynamic for small food production, mostly in the early twentieth century, with processing plants and mills in the area extending toward the cultivation of sugarcane. In the second half of that century, mainly in the 1980s, the cultivation of cane sugar was encouraged to produce alcohol, which led to a further expansion of sugar cane toward the areas targeted for the production of foodstuffs. Currently, the framework of small food production differs little from the period of colonization in relation to the difficulties faced by this segment of agriculture. Thus, we have a reality based on socio-spatial inequality, and the near absence of the Government, which requires urgent implementation of public policies for the production and organization of small producers into associations or cooperatives to improve the productivity and hence in their standards of living and their families / Esta pesquisa objetivou estudar o processo de reprodu??o do espa?o da pequena produ??o rural familiar no munic?pio de Canguaretama, especificamente, a voltada para g?neros aliment?cios de origem vegetal, procurando compreender as transforma??es ocorridas no espa?o agr?rio canguaretamense e seus impactos na pequena produ??o familiar, nos ?ltimos 35 anos. Desde a coloniza??o, durante o s?culo XVII, a produ??o do espa?o agr?rio de Canguaretama esteve alicer?ada sob uma estrutura baseada na grande propriedade e no cultivo da cana-de-a??car. Secundariamente, foi sendo constru?do um pequeno espa?o voltado a produ??o de alimentos capaz atender tanto o consumo da propriedade, quanto a comercializa??o no mercado local. Nos s?culos seguintes, as mudan?as ocorridas com o sistema capitalista impuseram uma nova din?mica ? pequena produ??o de alimentos, sobretudo, no in?cio do s?culo XX, com a transforma??o dos engenhos em usinas e a amplia??o da ?rea voltada para o cultivo da cana. Ainda na segunda metade do s?culo XX, principalmente na d?cada de 1980, o cultivo de cana-de-a??car foi incentivado para a produ??o de ?lcool, provocando uma nova expans?o das lavouras de cana em dire??o ?s ?reas voltadas para a produ??o de g?neros aliment?cios. Atualmente, o quadro da pequena produ??o de alimentos pouco se difere do per?odo da coloniza??o, em rela??o a dificuldades enfrentadas por este segmento da agricultura. Desta forma, tem-se uma realidade socioespacial baseada na desigualdade, e de quase aus?ncia do Poder P?blico, sendo necess?ria com urg?ncia a implementa??o de pol?ticas p?blicas voltadas para a produ??o e organiza??o dos pequenos produtores em associa??es ou cooperativas para melhoria da produtividade e, consequentemente, nos seus padr?es de vida e de seus familiares