WORKING
GROUP 18:
"Globalisation
and Family farm social transformations : resistance and mutations".
Coordination :
Eric Sabourin: eric.sabourin@cirad.fr
(Cirad France)
Marilda
Aparecida de Menezes (Paraiba Federal University, Brazil)
or
Cheik Oumar Ba: coba@isra.sn
(ISRA, Senegal)
trifunovic.s@masky.edu.yu
Family
farms provide most of the world’s agricultural production; they supply
markets with raw and processed products and have an important role in the
natural resource management. In spite of several modernisation theories
announcement, peasant agriculture (partially integrated to non perfect
markets) have not disappeared in the south countries. In the North family
farm units coexist with family agricultural small firms/enterprises. Family
farms are innovative and can be found all over the world because of their
capacity to adapt to different situations, showing resistance and resilience
potential which can be associated to a social capacity of mutation and
adaptation. By the way, both in the north and in the south countries, family
agriculture is faced with the challenges of globalisation in a liberalised
environment marked by the end of State support and the opening of markets to
external competitors. Smallholders, peasants and family farmers are being
confronted with rapidly changing environment as they are increasingly faced
to global economy processes and to their local effects : decentralisation,
privatisation, economical integration, etc.
The workshop will examine the transformations and opportunities created by these change and try to analyses how they could be characterised : i) in terms of resistance, of survival or in terms of mutation of traditional peasant societies, or ii) on the contrary, in terms of complete transformation to a family unit firm market integrated model.
Several
question can guide the main lines of this workshop :
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Which
kind of social or processes can explain the adaptation capacity of peasant
or family farm structures : the access forms to land and
resources, the organisation of family labour and the management of
family wealth ?
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How,
in certain conditions, family farmers and stakeholders are enabling
to diversify their activities or to suit new sustainable and
multifunctional types of family agriculture ? How agricultural innovation
processes are triggered or inhibited by the challenges of globalisation ?
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Which
socio-political capacities can explain the alliance and links with other
stakeholders, in order to enabling rural and peasants to empower their
organisations, to renew co-ordination mechanisms and to find new ways of
regulating agricultural sectors and establishing public policy ?
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On
an other way, how can we observe the permanence of family farms and the end
of peasant societies ?
Eric
Sabourin - Cirad-Tera :
Agricultures Familiales et
Mondialisation TA 60/15
73 rue J.F. Breton, 34398
Montpellier Cedex 5 , France
Tél : 33 (0)4.67.61.56.23
Fax : 33 (0)4.67.61.44.15
Marilda Menezes
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia
Tel. (83) 310-1051
Organizadores:
Márcio
Moraes Valença
é arquiteto/urbanista e professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação e
Pesquisa em Geografia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Tem
doutorado pela University of Sussex e pós-doutorado pela The London
School of Economics and Political Science.
Rita
de Cássia da Conceição Gomes
é geógrafa e professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa
em Geografia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Tem
doutorado pela Universidade Estadual Paulista.
O livro faz um estudo sobre a teoria marxista no movimento sindical, uma avaliação das organizações sindicais deste a época de Marx até os dias de hoje e o impacto do neoliberalismo nos trabalhadores. A mesa foi mediada pelo presidente da CUT/RJ , Jayme Ramos. O lançamento foi no auditório da CUT/RJ.