Autoconsumo e políticas públicas: estudo no município de Salvador das Missões-RS

Abstract

The present study aims to develop a longitudinal analysis on public policies and their implications for implications for self-consumption in the Municipality of Salvador das Missões through two databases, generated in the years 2002 and 2017 respectively. The methodology used is characterized as qualitativequantitative and comes from the questionnaires, applied to 58 families, through interviews. The structure considered five main axes, enabling stratified analysis of the variables of age, gender, size of properties, main crops destined for selfconsumption and public policies accessed. The results indicate differences in the family nucleus, differences in the main crops focused on family consumption and in the distribution of sizes in the area of the properties. The joint evaluation of public policies and the presence of vegetable garden and orchard for selfconsumption shows interaction on receiving benefits such as retirement, pension, sickness assistance, as well as, associated retirement and pension, which, have a higher frequency compared to properties that do not have benefited individuals