Agricultura familiar e o PRONAF: empreendedorismo feminino

Abstract

The Pronaf’s creation reflects on the incentive of rural social movements and on the definition of the family farming group that was previously known as small farmers. With the stabilization of the program, there was the emergence of several funding lines, causing the division of subgroups, resulting in the creation of policy in relation to the alleged demands in the social movements (ZANI; COSTA, 2014). One of these financing lines is the ―Pronaf Woman‖, created in the 2003/2004 crop, exclusively directed to rural women farmers. The present study aimed to analyze the main Pronaf contributions in the family farming, specifically, the ―Pronaf Woman‖ in the life of rural entrepreneurs in Brazil, in the period between 2004 and 2021. The methodology used was a qualitative and quantitative approach and the analysis procedure was a literature review regarding the scientific production of the topic addressed. Twenty-eight articles published in the Google Academic database were analyzed, on those, the applied methodology with a qualitative approach were the most used, the most frequent study procedure was the bibliographical, the field and interview research were the most frequent. The year with the highest number of publications was 2017 and the journals with the highest frequency were SOBER (Brazilian Society of Economics, Administration and Rural Sociology) and the UFRGS digital repository (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), both with 3 publications each. The results show that Pronaf Woman brings numerous contributions to the lives of rural women farmers, including the increase in female autonomy in the property decisions, increased self-esteem, social well-being and quality of life, besides, the reduction in inequality between men and women in rural areas. Lastly, from this study, it became clear that this information could be confirmed through a field research with the farmers, which was presented as a suggestion for future works.