Políticas públicas e atores sociais na evolução da cacauicultura baiana

Abstract

This thesis is to analyze the role of public policy and social actors in the evolution of Bahian cocoa plantations. In order to understand the significance of social capital in the context of the topic, the research takes into account three variables to explain the evolution of cocoa plantations, public policy, social networking and prices. Through a socio historical analysis, we sought to identify factors that comprised the causes and extent of training for cocoa crop as well as the achievements obtained with the breadth of its economic and social, that stood in the constellation of the most important monocultures the country. It seeks to explain the performance of the Bahian economy was linked to cocoa crop as well as the sustained cultivation of two public policies enacted in 1930 and 1957, opportunities for serious crises of the regional economy. Policies implemented by two agencies, ICB and CEPLAC, taken as redeemers of serious crises of cocoa in times of difficulties the state and regional economy. However, the incidence of witches' broom in 1988 and the consequent lack of an effective policy for revitalization of cacao cultivation has left an unprecedented crisis, combining that between the supporters of the fragility of the situation in the capital region excels as the most important.