Práticas sociais dos agricultores familiares associados e não associados em cooperativas: desafios e perspectivas objetivando o desenvolvimento rural sustentável

Abstract

The present study presents the research carried out in four cities in the western part of the parana, being the three basic variables of sustainable rural development, economic, social and environmental, the proposed work to compare farmers who are classified as family farmers between cooperative and non-cooperative in order to establish the objectives of those producers and to understand whether the cooperative assisted them in that process in order to achieve that objective and whether the objectives of those producers also help them sustainable rural development. The work was constructed from the qualitative-quantitative methodology, which used semistructured interviews to collect the data in the field, as well as the bibliographic review to build the bibliographic reference. Finally, the results are satisfactory, since it proves the interference of cooperatives in the social practices of the cooperative in a micro way to achieve specific results with their programs, however, it is emphasized that those who are not cooperated have the same non-cooperative life goals achieved being necessary to associate to a cooperative to obtain advantages.