Multifuncionalidade, organização e desenvolvimento rural nos setores rurais do município de Montes Claros-MG

Abstract

The countryside is dynamic and it’s constantly changing. The forms of social reproduction and labor, the relation between field and city, the history, the technologies inserted in the field, to big producers likewise to small ones, have influence on this environment modeling and draw the profiles of each region. Nowadays, there’s a new configuration in the field, which has been for a long time essentially agricultural and in the last four decades it is noticed the incorporation of new activities, new elements and different ways of living with nature and changes in social relation and in the relation field-city, translated through family agriculture multifunctionality and pluriactivity, in which the agriculturist diversifies its activities concerning not only to the field labor and often begins to perform non-agricultural activities. Upon these reflections, the main goal of this study is to understand the countryside of Montes Claros from the study of multifunctionality, organization and rural development. From this objective it is also intended to investigate the agricultural multifunctionality and the pluriactivity of the rural sectors established by the Municipal Council for Sustainable Rural Development – CMDRS; to analyze the potentialities e difficulties of the permanency of the people in the field and the aspects of rural organization in the sectors Therefore, as methodology, is used a bibliographical research about this theme, in which were contextualized the concepts of rural development, multifunctionality and pluriactivity, the countryside, rurality and family agriculture that orient the work in rural perspective. Field research, data collection in place, tabulation of data collected in the field research and also tabulation and treatment of the IBGE Automatic Recovery System – SIDRA – data, iconographic record, consultation of official documents and interviews. In the fieldwork, workshops were held using SWOT matrix that allowed a diagnostic analysis of sectors from eight topics that include environment, social, economic and structural aspects. Starting from the data tabulation it was possible to obtain a broad view of the city, the researched rural sectors showed a general panorama with detailed information, which allowed a compilation of important information about the organization and rural development of Montes Claros.