NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF FAMILY AGRICULTURE (PRONAF) AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS FOR MINES GERAIS IN THE YEARS 2006 AND 2017
Rural Development. PRONAF. Minas Gerais. Multivariate analysis
The main objective of the dissertation project is to investigate the possible conditions and the influence of the National Program for the Strengthening of Family Agriculture (PRONAF) on the rural development of microregions in the state of Minas Gerais, in the years 2006 and 2017. To this, a rural development index will be constructed using the factor analysis technique, which will be able to synthesize the information related to the stage of rural development in Minas Gerais. The index will be used as a proxy to analyze possible spatial configurations and rural development conditions through PRONAF. The database consists of the use of secondary data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira and the Central Bank of Brazil. The applied methodologies address two techniques of multivariate analysis, namely, factor analysis and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), in addition to the exploratory analysis of spatial data. The techniques will allow a spatial and temporal comparison of the progress of rural development in Minas Gerais, under the period under study. The expected results will allow evaluating the spatial configurations of rural development, as well as revealing the main characterizations that make rural development feasible under the conditions of PRONAF in Minas Gerais.