Abstract
The exercise of thinking about local development involves considering all the complexity of the actors and their interactions in the economic, environmental and social fields in an articulated way. Some of the forms of articulation for income generation are cooperatives and associations that, through collective work and management, give the community and those involved the role of agents. As a way of thinking about local development through collective initiatives for income generation, our aim is to conduct a transnational comparative analysis of rural cooperative Israeli communities, Moshavim, and an Association of Artisans in the municipality of Maria da Fe, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The methodology took into account the local context of the enterprises, structuring the comparative case study on the basis of the parameters of pluriactivity, rural enterprises, use of natural resources, alternative generation of income, cooperative organization and mutual assistance. The results indicate similarities in the rurality of both, in the use of natural resources and in mutual assistance. The main differences are in the pluriactivity and in the use of manpower (self-labor and wage -labor). Keywords: local development, generation of income, collective organizations, Moshav, Association of Craftsmen, comparative analysis.
Highlights
Blending local development with alternative ways of generating income depends on the organizations and social movements that promote new opportunities for communities and their actors
From perspectives which covers local particularities and each social structure being dealt with, local development can be defined as an endogenous process that occurs in certain localities, fostering economic growth and improving the quality of life in the region
Two types of social movements will be presented: a type of cooperative, the Moshavim, and an Association of Craftsmen, based on the premise that they contribute to their local development
Summary
Blending local development with alternative ways of generating income depends on the organizations and social movements that promote new opportunities for communities and their actors This reflection is based on the view that the concept of development differs from economic growth. The comparison will track an analysis of the main differences and similarities between the Moshavim in Israel, characterized by the mobilization of a rural community in the agricultural area, and the Association called ‘Casa do Artesão Mariense’, which is located in the municipality of Maria da Fé, in the southeast of the state of Minas Gerais In this case, the type of Moshav that will be discussed in this paper is the original one, that existed up to the 1980s. The research has an interdisciplinary basis and aims to integrate different disciplinary proposals through the relationship between economics and social sciences as a complementary perspective
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