Cooperação alternativa como estratégia de viabilização da agricultura familiar: o caso da Cooperativa Central Sabor Colonial
alternative cooperation, rural development, rural familiar agroindustry
The modernizing process that consolidated the region Western Santa Catarina as a hub producer of alimentary commodities was, at the same time, extremely strict in the productive chain staff selection, which resulted in the exclusion of many farmers from the possibilities of economic insertion and social establishment and movements that have formed alternative ways of providing value and cooperation to family farming. This study focuses on the analysis of rural development strategies and cooperation to make the family farming possible through the Cooperativa Central Sabor Colonial intervention. The research is characterized as an exploratory, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach. To obtain the data, besides bibliographic and documental search, semi structured interviews with representative subjects of the cooperative were also performed, seeking a clearer identification of the limits and possibilities of their action strategies. It was able to verify that the above named cooperative dedicates more efforts to the organization of the institutional market and, as a potential possibility, the ability of becoming a reference in the growing differential products market coming from family farming yet little explored. It was also verified that the cooperative has a need of extending its articulation in a wider trading network so as to enable new commercialization spaces to local operation ventures and, thus, continue to contribute for the consolidation of alternative cooperation as a strategy of family farming establishment.
Lauri Luiz Kunzler, Rosana Maria Badalotti
Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul