Empreendedorismo rural: um propulsor da agricultura familiar na geração de renda e desenvolvimento local nas populações rurais de São Jose de Ribamar

Abstract

Research on rural entrepreneurship in rural communities of San José de Ribamar, was signed on the following aspects: social and economic development; improving the quality of life; impact on income and social status of entrepreneurial families; contributions of rural entrepreneurship, for municipal economy, and the promotion of actions for farmers. The purpose of this research was to determine whether the rural entrepreneurship contributes to local development and income generation of the rural population. Initially characterized entrepreneurship in general in the theoretical framework, then specifying rural entrepreneurship and addressing concepts of family farming, differentiating employer farmer family farmer. The methodology was qualitative and quantitative nature and achieved various categories involved in family farming in the municipality studied, which were informal interviews with representatives of organizations focused on local development, credit and development, with rural entrepreneurs and application forms with family farmers. Research on ends is exploratory, as the media was used field research and literature. Completed the analysis, the result achieved was: since all the difficulties faced, rural entrepreneurs made good progress changing and improving your reality, but much remains to be done, exploited and enhanced so that your fact entrepreneurial potential will be shown and felt by rural / urban population. The development of both economic and social is already being perceived and measured in those communities where rural entrepreneurship is gaining visibility, this from the family farm that serves as a driving tool of income generation and local development.