02101naa a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902000180006010000110007824501350008926000090022452014290023365300250166265300340168765300260172165300220174777301500176910843662012-04-04       2011    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a97892510703691 aEpagri  aThe emergence of SME agro-industry networks in the shadow of agribusiness contract farmingba case study from the south of Brazil.  c2011  aThis paper proposes to review two decades of interventions in the Western Region of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, to promote small and medium agro-industries, either individual or managed on a group basis, as a strategy for the sustainable renewal of the family farm sector together with its food processing traditions. Initially a large proportion of the family farm sector was integrated into a white meats agro-industrial complex but by the ?80s concentration in both industrial and farming activities led to large-scale exclusion. Since then there have been a series of efforts to preserve rural incomes and employment and revitalize local economies through the promotion of small-scale agro-industries based on local food traditions, known as ?colonial? products, which have persisted and are appreciated both in the region and outside. We will review the different instruments and policies directed at forms of organization, financing, technological models, management, and marketing. At the same time, we will explore the importance of social networks in sustaining these emerging organization and markets. We will argue that a key explanation for the emergence and persistence of these new models of agro-industrial development in the region has been the diversity of the actors and the experiments undertaken and the synergies, often unintended and even conflictive, between public and private interventions.  aAgricultura Familiar  aAgroind??stria Familiar Rural  aDesenvolvimento Rural  aOeste Catarinense  tIn: SILVA, C. A. da; MHLANGA, N. (Eds.). Innovative Policies and Institutions ro Support Agro-Industries Development. Roma: FAO, 2011. p. 87-119.