Agricultores familiares e políticas públicas em Roraima : o caso da CEPRRA no PDA/PPG7

Abstract

This paper analyzes the trajectory of CEPRRA with the PDA. CEPRRA is a cooperative formed by family farmers who, in 1994, began their journey in search of development. This cooperative was part of the Type A Demonstration Project (PDA), one of the Subproject of the Pilot Program for the Protection of Brazilian Tropical Forests (PPG-7), maintained with International Cooperation resources through the World Bank IBRD, with support from the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and other countries of the former G7. Its history is constructed from an identity originating from the peasant social movements positioning themselves against the assistencialismo and political clientelism during the process of colonization of the region of Apiaú. The PDA, as a public policy, aims at alternative production based on ecodevelopment and participatory democratic management. However, the Cooperative found difficulties in executing the program, since other groups from farmers, local and state elites were against the actions of the PDA. From its historical formation CEPRRA built its own identity based on another understanding of values linked to the land, the environment and alternative family production that does not prioritize and centralize family agriculture to the capitalist market. The fundamental methodology in this research contemplates interdisciplinarity with emphasis on the study of public policies, history, anthropology and geography. The research used the qualitative method of field research and case study through the collection of institutional data, interviews and other documents prioritizing the sources of these farmers, giving to demonstrate their history and conceptions. Sources of classical and other specific authors in the theoretical approach served to substantiate the relations of this group with the State, in the experiences with public policies and in the construction of their identity.