Quiosques Missioneiros: inclusão da digitalização e transição produtiva

Abstract

The present work consists of bringing the relevance that family farming has for the population's food, as well as its difficulties and also advantages in the commercialization of its products. With this, it was sought to know how the Missionary Kiosks were created and how they work, with their products coming entirely from family farming and local producers in the Missions. The world agrifood system is currently based on the production of monocultures, and these are the ones that supply the industries and the market of processed foods, from the long chains of commercialization, with a production system that normally causes a modification/artificialization of ecosystems. , bringing an impact on the groups of family farmers who maintain the polyculture tradition focused on self-consumption and surplus commercialization. The Covid-19 pandemic caused several effects on the hegemonic food system, with the construction of more sustainable food systems being an alternative. But it also brought a quest to build more sustainable food systems, as well as healthier, more natural foods. The current research focused on analyzing the strategy for the creation of Missionary Kiosks and their functionalities, where it sought to identify the potential and challenges of productive diversification with the search for an agroecological transition focused on short commercialization circuits, together with the inclusion of digitalization of food markets. Currently, social networks are of great importance for kiosks, but the productive transition is not of much relevance to the social actors studied. The biggest consequence generated by the Covid-19 pandemic was the decrease in the visiting public and also consumer of Missionary Kiosks, and the Inclusion of Digitization and Productive Transition should be considered as a strategy to circumvent this consequence, even if on a small scale. The possible development and generation of a connection network between the Missionary Kiosks could generate a greater union between the places of direct commercialization and a diversification of the commercialized products. There are still many obstacles that need to be overcome for an improvement and balance in this category of commerce, mainly in terms of management of points of sale, assistance and public incentives for the possibility of improving this. The creation of Missionary Kiosks greatly improved and facilitated the commercialization of colonial products from local family farming, helping to enhance this category and also created a reliable commercialization point for family producers, considering that the direct sale of the short chain can be related to a certain sale of the products available at the kiosks.