Proposal for the Characterization of Agrarian Cooperatives and Solidarity Enterprises of Baixo Tocantins in Pará State, Brazil
This article is the result of extensive field work fundamentally focused on the organization of small family producers through agrarian cooperatives in the Baixo Tocantins region (Pará State, Brazil). This type of socioeconomic structure in progressive expansion in the territory under study implies real improvement, not only in its social but also material and cultural aspects, both for the partners–farmers and their families and for the communities where the cooperatives are located and carry out their activities. This substantial improvement has been verified in the territory under study and is reflected in a significant increase in family income, the introduction of new practices and techniques that try to be respectful of the environment and sustainable over time, greater sovereignty in farming practices and decision-making, a noteworthy independence from traditional commercial circuits (intermediation) and the feasibility of rural life for future generations through cooperative territorialisation.
How to Cite
License
As the author of the article declares that is an original unpublished work exclusively created by me, that it has not been submitted for simultaneous evaluation by another publication and that there is no impediment of any kind for concession of the rights provided for in this contract.
In this sense, I am committed to await the result of the evaluation by the journal Cooperativismo & Desarrollo before considering its submission to another medium; in case the response by that publication is positive, additionally, I am committed to respond for any action involving claims, plagiarism or any other kind of claim that could be made by third parties.
At the same time, as the author or co-author, I declare that I am completely in agreement with the conditions presented in this work and that I cede all patrimonial rights, in other words, regarding reproduction, public communication, distribution, dissemination, transformation, making it available and all forms of exploitation of the work using any medium or procedure, during the term of the legal protection of the work and in every country in the world, to the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia Press.
Cabanes-Morote, M. y Gómez-López, J. D. (2014). Economía social y soberanía alimentaria. Aportaciones de las cooperativas y asociaciones agroecológicas de producción y consumo al bienestar de los territorios. Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa, 82,127-154.
Comissão Pastoral da Terra Nacional Brasil [CPT] (2001). Conflitos no campo no Brasil. Goiânia: Expressão Popular.
Coraggio, J. L. (2009). Los caminos de la economía social y solidaria. Revista Iconos, 33, 29-38.
Dos Reis, A. (2008). Estratégias de desenvolvimento local sustentável da pequena produção familiar na várzea do municipio de Igarapé-Miri (PA). Belém, Brasil: UFPA - NAEA.
Gómez-López, J. D. (2004). Las cooperativas agrarias: instrumento de desarrollo rural. Alicante: Universidad de Alicante.
Gómez-López, J. D. (2008). El proceso de internacionalización del sector cooperativo agrario: intercooperación y relaciones transnacionales y transfronterizas. En V Encontro de Pesquisadores Latinoamericanos de Cooperativismo. Riberão Preto, Brasil: Fundace.
Haesbaert, R. (2007). Concepções de território para entender a desterritorialização. En vv.aa., Território, territórios: ensaios sobre o ordenamento territorial (pp. 43-72). Rio de Janeiro: Lamparina.
Laville, J. L. (Dir.). (1994). L’économie solidaire: une perspective internationale. Paris: Desclée de Bouwer.
Ortiz-Pérez, S. (2012). Improntas de las cooperativas agrarias en Brasil y España: cooperativas-empresa y cooperativas-populares. Revista Conexões, 4(2), 57-77.
Porto, C. W. (2010). Amazônia, Amazônias (3a ed.). São Paulo: Contexto.
Raffestin, C. (1993). Por uma geografia do poder. São Paulo: Ática.
Santos, M. (2009). Pensando o espaço do homem (5a ed.). São Paulo: Edusp.
Saquet, M. A. (2010). Abordagens e concepções de territorio. São Paulo: Expressão Popular.
Singer, P. (2002). Introdução à Economía Solidária. São Paulo: Fundação Perseu Abramo.
