Contribuições da casa familiar rural de Saudade-SC para a permanência da juventude no campo

Abstract

In face of the historical and problematic reduction and aging of the farmers in Brasil over the past 50 years, it is made necessary to discuss and know experiences that can contribute for the development of inheritance of family agriculture that want to give conditions for the young ones to stay in the fields. This way, this work aims to analyse the experience of the Casa Familiar Rural (CFR) in Saudades-SC, which comes with a proposal of education directed to the reality and needs of the field individuals, and that proposes to perfom an alternative role on the formation of young farmers of the West of Santa Catarina by searching for na articulation between scientific school knowledge and work at familiar agriculture. In this regard, this work aims to investigate the contributions of the Casa Familiar Rural of Saudades to the formation of the young ones, especially to the development of professional projects of life, seeking to evidence the implications of the permanence of the young in the fields and the ways and means for the family succession on the farms of the town. The research was developed over the qualitative investigation, involving biliographical and documental survey, the analisys of Life Professional Projects (PPVJ) developed by the young egress students of the Casa Familiar Rural of 2009 and 2018, and semi-structured interviews. The results show that the Casa Familiar Rural of Saudades, through the Life Professional Projects, develops an important role over the youth permanence in the fields by the perspective of work, as all the projects were implemented and continue to contribute with the generation of work and income in the family unit. However, it needs to go further on the perspective of critical formation, to form effectively more independent individuals that free this young student of the alienated form of agriculture integrated to agroindustries, in order to promote projects and more sustainable ways of production which emerges with the advance of the actual debates around food security and agroecology.