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Biblioteca(s): | Epagri-Sede.
Data corrente: | 17/11/2017
Data da última atualização: | 17/11/2017
Autoria: | MONTALVÁN, R. A. V.; ARAUJO, L. A.; GIEHL, A. L.; FELICIANO, A. M.
Título: | Conception of Managing Practices as Key Factor to Achieve Rural Development and Sustainability in Southern Brazil.
Ano de publicação: | 2017
Fonte/Imprenta: | European Journal of Sustainable Development, Roma, Italy, v. 6, n. 4, p. 361-369 , 2017.
Idioma: | Inglês

Conteúdo:

Achievement of rural development under the three pillars of sustainability is a strenuous process that
will depend on a set of complex variables. Defining actions to contribute to socioeconomic
development requires the diagnosis of current conditions, facilitating the decision-making process by
policy makers. In addition, purpose of rural establishments? managers is to build up their future, then
the greater their resilience to markets? oscillation and environmental constrains the greater
possibilities to achieve sustainability. Consequently, identifying the adopted managing practices by
family farmers holding most of rural area is preponderant. Considering that management practices
influence and are influenced by strategies that depend on external and internal environment
conditions, then, how to understand the wide variety of activities that make up the management
practice and the creation of strategies, as well as their perception by farmers? This paper aims to
respond to it in a survey conducted in southern Brazil. The study was guided by the principles of
qualitative and quantitative research, with exploratory and descriptive nature. It was applied a
questionnaire to 232 families and then responses were evaluated under a refined SWOT analysis.
Managers recognize the external environment variables as threats and the internal environment ones
as a strength.

Palavras-Chave: | Economic Sustainability; Emerging Countries; Family Farming; Rural Development; Strategies; SWOT Analysis.
Categoria do assunto: | B Sociologia Rural
URL: | http://intranetdoc.epagri.sc.gov.br/producao_tecnico_cientifica/DOC_40096.pdf
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