Política pública para a agricultura familiar: o Programa Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sustentável dos Territórios Rurais (Proinf) no território Caparaó-ES

Abstract

Although rights for the family farmers had been inserted in the 1988 Federal Constitution, what did contribute to the formulation of a public politics at this segment it was also the demand by the civilian society, through workers syndicates movements, small rural producers, joining the Agriculture Workers National Confederation (Contag), among other social movements. Adding to this, studies were performed jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and by the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) aiming at the making of a program that would benefit the family farming segment. The National Programme for the Strengthening of the Family Farming (Pronaf) presented itself as the first public policy nationally consolidated with such purpose. As a public politic in the making, one of its credit line, the one for infrastructure and services, does alter its range, going from municipal to territorial, entitled as National Programme for Sustainable Development of Rural Territories (Proinf). This range expansion has as one of its axioms the participation of the family farmers in the decisions processes. To better verify this change, it was elected the study of the case of the Caparaó Territory in the state of Espírito Santo, where there had been conflict and attempt to the social concertation, above all the family farmers who were not previously Proinf participants.