Perímetro de irrigação Jaíba e a resiliência da agricultura familiar: a complexidade de 30 anos de uma política agrícola

Abstract

The objective of the present paper is to discuss the dynamics involving the resilience of family agriculture in public development projects based on irrigated agriculture. The paper focuses on the study of the factors that determine the permanence of the farmers settled in the irrigation perimeter Jaíba, Minas Gerais. The Jaíba irrigation perimeter presents favorable context for the research, since it was contemplated with similar structures and expected, its idealizers, to receive similar responses of those involved to the planned intervention process. In other words, the opportunity to study groups of farmers assisted by the same public policy of territorial development and whose starting point is the same amount of land approaches the idea of semiexperiments. In this case, evidence of the group's resilience - or lack thereof - arises from the high turnover rate in settlement areas and the vulnerability of households assessed through food insecurity indicators and the resilience approach to household livelihoods, Household Livelihood Resilience Approach (HLRA).