Desenvolvimento local de comunidades rurais e suas implicações para as políticas públicas: arranjos institucionais e diversificação da produção rural de pequena escala

Abstract

The need to build more robust alternative to the social, economic and environmental development has brought new dimensions to the formulation and implementation of public policies at different levels of governance. This article discussed the role of the state in these new forms of governance, here treated as institutional arrangements of local development policies and seeks to foster reflection on the sustainable integration of smallfarm production in value chains as mechanisms of economic growth and mitigation social inequalities. For this, hand launches an institutionalist approach to the subject, focusing on economic and social relations that determine the generation of income from the production rural.O article draws attention to the diversity of the smallfarm production base and family and aims to emphasize the qualitative aspects related to the source of income from the household.