Abstract

SILVA, Maria Elza Soares da. Agrofuels and Family Farming in Brazil: Conflicts and contradictions in reaching the social goal of Piauí biodiesel program. SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE [online]. 2020, n.23, pp.95-114.  Epub Jan 11, 2022. ISSN 1647-3337.  https://doi.org/10.30553/sociologiaonline.2020.23.5.

The production of green energy with the participation of family farming aroused the interest of the government and agribusiness investors. In Brazil, the biodiesel program showed as an alternative for generating income for poor family farmers included in the biodiesel production chain. This article aims to analyze the conflicts arising from articulating agrofuel production with the social demand of poor family agriculture in the semi-arid region of Piauí. For this purpose, field research was carried out to collect qualitative data from program participants in southern Piauí. The study showed that the model of productive project resulted in the exclusion of farmers within the traditional production and subsistence logic. This has negative implications in accessing land and in the biodiesel market.

Keywords : social reproduction; agrofuel; access to land..

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