Family Farming and Rural Territorial Development: experiences and challenges the Public Policy in the Southwest Goiás

Abstract

Currently, policies designed to promote rural development through the territory as important element approach, understanding the farmer as a social agent of that space. In this sense, the Ministry of agrarian development (MDA), through the Secretary of Territorial Development (SDT), painted, from 2004, numerous Rural Territories and citizenship in Brazil, aiming at the social, economic and cultural development of family farming. Recently, the SDT, aiming to strengthen the strategies of territorial development policy in the country, implemented in partnership with universities, the nuclei of developing Territorial Extension (NEDETs), which are intended to perform actions, research and extension workers in rural areas and of citizenship. Therefore, this study aims to understand the role of NEDETs as a strategy of federal policies for rural development. Highlight the core deployment process in Territorial Development in Southwest Goiás State, started in 2015, highlighting their challenges, progress and prospects. This work is characterized as a basic research of exploratory and qualitative character. For the realization of this study were used the following methodological steps: Bibliographical Research (theoretical and technical); data tabulation and analysis and field research by means of the actions of the core.