Entre o campo e a feira: análise das estratégias de resistência de agricultores rurais na feira da volta redonda em Caxias-MA

Abstract

The street markets of Caxias-MA make it possible to perceive indispensable elements to observe the reach of the public power and the development policies designed for this sector, in view of the municipal and state responsibility to meet the family-based production. This work aims to analyze the strategies used by the stallholders of the Volta Redonda fair to remain in operation (since 1994) until today. It is possible to observe the reduction in the number of vendors and products in the operation of the Volta Redonda fair over the last few years. Initially, the fair presented a dynamic with several products and a high flow of consumers, according to reports from the stallholders themselves. If the fair was born from a political incentive and the development of a project, what security guards are later developed for the maintenance of that space? And if there are no public policies that meet the demands of that group, what resistance strategies do the stallholders develop to sustain their existence? In this work we find the survey of policies aimed at municipal and state family farming, seeking to investigate where the family farmers are, the mapping of the regulated "free markets" of the municipality and how they work and finally, an ethnography of the Volta Redonda fair.