Thinking about the nurture social space considering the family agriculture

Abstract

The rural development must take into account the existence of functions of family agriculture related to security and a quality in the food supply. However, any injunction on this matter will be determined by a series of operations connecting production and consumption, connecting geographically dispersed agents and places. One may conceive a “space of social feed” divided into places of production, transformation, distribution and consumption - each of these connected by hierarchical and/or reciprocal relations. The concept “economic circuits” contributes to the study of the nature and the forms of the participation of family agriculture into the space of social feed, because such a concept considers the connections between places as a process of social-spatial construction. The use of these concepts enables the strategies of action that respect this specific social actor into developmental processes.