PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF COLLECTIVE STAKEHOLDERS IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL FAMILY FARMING

O RECONHECIMENTO PÚBLICO DOS ATORES COLETIVOS DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR NO NORDESTE

Eric Sabourin (1, 2) , Ghislaine Duque (3) , Paulo C O Diniz (3) , Lima Oliveira , Laurence Florentino Granchamp (3)

1 UnB - University of Brasilia [Brazil]
2 UPR Politiques et marchés - Actions collectives, politiques et marchés
3 UFCG - Universidade Federal de Campina Grande [Campina Grande]

In recent years, peasant communities and family farmers’ organisations have developed new forms of collective action among smallholders in North East Brazil. This paper analyses the origins, emergence, and impact of these local and regional initiatives as well as their relations with peasant social movements and with public institutions. These smallholders groups constitute collective systems for the management of natural resources (water, grazing, forest, seeds and bio-diversity) and/or the production of public assets (information, training, access to innovation and to specific markets). In the Northeast, particularly in the State of Paraíba, their experience has mobilised social and professional networks among civil society and led to demands in hybrid forums for public recognition or, better, public support from State institutions. The authors analyse the first lessons from, and the limitations of, these new forms of interaction between peasant collective action and State public action. This movement is related to the decentralisation process underway in Brazil and the first intermunicipal initiatives. There is a risk that civil society might substitute for the State in the performance of its functions; but the public obligations of these collective stakeholders also ensure locally adapted responses to the complexity and specificity of public policies. The new government has staked its programs on civil society participation. But we can already observe some tensions between the government, social movements and local politicians. In a political system with elections every two years, it is difficult to maintain participatory processes that require longer periods for concrete results.

Os agricultores do Nordeste desenvolveram, nos últimos anos, novas formas de ação coletiva no âmbito de comunidades camponesas e de organizações profissionais. O artigo analisa a origem, os fatores de emergência e o impacto dessas iniciativas locais ou regionais, e suas relações com os movimentos sociais e o Estado. Esses novos atores, ou essas novas práticas, correspondem principalmente a dispositivos coletivos de manejo de recursos naturais (água, pastagens, sementes) e/ou de produção de bens públicos: capacitação, informação, inovação e acesso a mercados específicos. O artigo toma algumas lições dessas experiências.

Mots clés: collective action; public policies; Northeast.; organisations; innovation

Mots clés: ação coletiva; políticas públicas; organizações; inovação; Nordeste

Domaines: Sociologie

Eric Sabourin, Ghislaine Duque, Paulo C O Diniz, Lima Oliveira, Laurence Florentino Granchamp. O RECONHECIMENTO PÚBLICO DOS ATORES COLETIVOS DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR NO NORDESTE. Cadernos de Ciência & Tecnologia, 2006, pp.293-306. ⟨hal-02862979⟩