Banca de DEFESA: THAIS DE CÁSSIA SILVA LEMOS

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STUDENT : THAIS DE CÁSSIA SILVA LEMOS
DATE: 31/08/2022
TIME: 16:00
LOCAL: meet.google.com/qui-rfpv-hqw
TITLE:

THE DYNAMICS OF COFFEE FARMING IN FAMILY AGRICULTURE IN POÇO FUNDO - MG: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES IN GENERATIONAL SUCCESSION BY COOPFAM

KEY WORDS:

Rural Youth; Agribusiness; Family Agriculture, Southern Minas and Cooperatives.

PAGES: 155
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Agrária
SUMMARY:

The rural exodus has been the reality in most Brazilian regions, where the country's degree of urbanization exceeds 80%, since agricultural modernization and land concentration have made it difficult for people to stay in the countryside, especially living from agricultural activities. These transformations have mainly affected rural young people, who migrate in search of new opportunities and jobs in urban spaces and are the main responsible for the depopulation of rural areas, motivated by several factors, including income. The departure of young people from rural areas has compromised the social reproduction of family farming, since they have no desire to become successors and continue family production. Coffee production is an important production for the country's economy and for several municipalities in the southern region of Minas Gerais, which is the largest coffee producer in the country, with several multinationals and cooperatives. Thus, the research aimed to understand the dynamics of coffee farming in Poço Fundo-MG, identify the motivations for staying and leaving young people involved in coffee farming, and also analyzing the strategies of the Cooperativa de Agricultores Familiares de Poço Fundo e Região (COOPFAM), for the permanence and participation of young people in the cooperative and in agricultural activity. The reason for choosing the cooperative was because it has a different ideology and because of the production of organic coffee, a low-cost production that has generated income and contributed to the permanence of producers. Interviews were conducted with young people between 16 and 24 years old, who are linked to COOPFAM, and who live both in the countryside and in the city. With the information obtained, it is possible to understand the desire of young people to continue the coffee production and become successors, it is present, it is also noticed that the cooperative has created strategies in the face of projects for the permanence and participation of young people in the countryside and in the cooperative. Even in the face of obstacles present in rural areas, young people have the perspective and option of staying in the countryside, motivated by the good results that their parents have been achieving in production and by the affective relationship with the rural environment.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 975.433.810-87 - FLAMARION DUTRA ALVES - UNIFAL-MG
Interno - 1896246 - MARCIO ROBERTO TOLEDO
Externa à Instituição - ANA RUTE DO VALE - UNIFAL-MG
Externa à Instituição - MICHELE LINDNER - UFRGS