Cooperativa agrícola resistência do Tocantins - CART: alternativa de organização sócio-produtiva do pequeno produtor rural em Cametá/Pará

Abstract

This thesis is an analysis of strategies for small farmers organized in cooperatives in search of job security and income in Cametá City, Pará. In this way, it was considered initially influences the conditions for social integration, productive and economic incentives and the Prelature and advisory institutions that reinforced the organization. In this way, the Union of Rural Workers struggles of demand led to the improvement of socioeconomic conditions in Cametá City. The theoretical reflections and practical reality, these actors, show that the relationships have been articulated to promote a view of the changes that have impacted this city, which has been compounded since the implementation of major projects in the Amazon, such as the deployment of Hydroelectric Tucuruí, which significantly changed the lifestyle of this population. Thus, the Rural workers, organized collectively, now play for overcoming these difficulties through productive activities as a strategy for local sustainable development, highlighting instruments to guarantee the production and marketing of fruits, with emphasis on açaí, but also in other products such as cassava flour and recently oilseeds. Therefore, it develops a socio-productive from Cametá, analyzes the rise of STR - Cametá, the creation of the CART, specifying their relationship marketing strategies in the network through the organization of the Consortium of Trade and the Federation of Cooperatives Family Farming and Solidarity Economy - FECAFES productive as an instrument of strategic value to the organization of small farmers from Cametá.