SISTEMAS AGRÍCOLAS: O PARADOXO EM TORNO DOS ÍNDICES DE PRODUTIVIDADE DA AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR

Abstract

The article deals with the need to establish a balance point, ideal among the existing options, in the relation between the increase in productivity towards the economic / environmental sustainability of Agricultural Systems characterized as family farming. The model considered as excellent for the productivity standards of high input agriculture, does not take into account the reality observed in rural properties managed by family farming. This, arouses the need for studies focused on some points on the issue: definition of the basic reference of composition of the Agricultural System of Family Farming; development of different tests with different levels of technological gradation to analyze the reference cost of productivity and the respective revenue; establishment of factors for acceptable sample discrepancy; determination of a standard production system representative of Brazilian family farming; verification of the environmental resilience aspects of the system under different production technologies; formulation of the direct relationship curve between productivity and revenue by adopting different levels of technology; test and indicate operational research methodologies for the specific Agricultural System.