The construction of a rural development territory: specific territorial resources and assets

Abstract

This article aims to identify the specific resources and territorial assets of the Santa Catarina Sierra that may constitute a composite offer in the process of forming a Basket of Territorial Goods and Services (CBST). To this end, we start from the reality of the territory of the Santa Catarina Mountains, especially with regard to a preliminary survey of these types of resources and territorial assets, capable of catalyzing developmental actions that deviate from the hegemonic productivist model. This approach emphasizes the importance in the territorial development processes of the articulation between different initiatives of valorization of specific products and services. Through bibliographic and documentary research, as well as fieldwork in Serra Catarinense, this research points out that the CBST approach presents itself as an innovative theoretical-methodological approach to the understanding of new definitions and resignifications of development actions in rural spaces. in Brazil. In the empirical context analyzed, in addition to the initiatives of creation of Geographical Indications (GI) for artisan serrano cheese, apple, wines of altitude and melato honey, rural tourism highlights the potential of the territory in the development of initiatives that consolidate a CBST.