Succession in family farming: gender and future perspectives

Márcia Hanzen,Flávia Piccinin Paz Gubert,Luciana Oliveira de Fariña,Clério Plein,Juçara Elza Hennerich

doi:10.33448/rsd-v10i3.13594

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Abstract

The succession processes in rural properties, in particular, in family farming, has taken priority status among the themes that involve the rural environment. The present study was carried out in the extreme west of the state of Santa Catarina, between the years 2016 and 2017, when 268 farmers were interviewed. In addition to the objective of recording and discussing data related to succession, gender and generational processes, the research was also carried out as a didactic tool for agricultural sciences courses in the region. The study recorded the desire, regardless of gender, of 5.5% of young people to break connection with agriculture in their future and not participate in the succession processes. Result that opposes the point of view of the parents, who express a gender distinction in the succession role, where 72.4% relates the male gender to such, while for the female gender the desire of 94% of fathers and mothers is that the daughters, respectively, get married and / or live in the city. The study points out the importance of actions involving the parents of rural youth in succession and gender issues that are increasingly urgent in the possible future of family farming.

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The discussion involving the theme of family succession permeates other themes such as the delrease of the rural population, and was already on the Europe agenda in the 1960s
In view of the above arguments, we look at the results shown in Figure 1, where 5.5% of the young people interviewed say they do not want to have any future relationship with agriculture
The results presented here contradict or complement, punctually the statement by Oliveira et al (2021, p.2), who considers that efforts have been made in the recognition of family farming and in the construction of public policies in order to curb the rural exodus was lacking, advances in the considerations and transformations underway, “such as demographic issues that involve the reduction of fertility rates and succession in rural areas, impacted by the young people's lack of interest in remaining in the countryside”, to which the study developed here, adds the lack of interest, action or perception of fathers and mothers in the permanence of these young people in the field

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The discussion involving the theme of family succession permeates other themes such as the delrease of the rural population, and was already on the Europe agenda in the 1960s. Similar figures were published by the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA) (2008), showing that between the 1950s and 2006 the rural population decrease more than 47%, it is important to note that more than 50% of the total was concentrated between 1980 and 2000 (Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário, 2008) Corroborating these data between 2006 and 2017, according to Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), data, there was a 9.5% reduction in the number of family farming business, dropping in the overall percentage of rural business from 83.2% to 76.8% in the respective years, and in 2017 they occupied 23% of the area destined to agriculture in Brazil. Data from the 2017 census point to the economic importance of family farming, in the state of Santa Catarina for example, is responsible for 50.6% of the value generated by agricultural production

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