INNOVATION IN DEVELOPMENT RURAL AND REGIONAL: THE CASE OF MULTIDIMENSIONS NOVELTIES IN THE FAMILY AGROINDUSTRIES

Abstract

The research sought to identify and analyze the motivations and the different types of novelties in the productive systems and in the family agroindustries and their effects on families and on the processes of rural and regional development. The methodology was developed based on qualitative and quantitative data, mainly interviewing farmers (four), technicians and rural development agents (eight), in the municipality of Verê/PR, in 2018. The theoretical approaches used were the Actor Oriented Perspective (POA) of the Norman Long and the Multilevel and Co-Evolutionary Perspective (PMN) of authors working with socio-technical approaches. This research found different types of novelties, such as: productive, technological, organizational, market building and environmental sustainability. Such novelties ensured a better living and working condition for the families studied and corroborated to explain their permanence in rural areas. With these novelties, farmers achieved a more sustainable production system, with greater productive, commercial and financial autonomy, and at the same time, started to produce healthier food. However, it was also observed that there are challenges to the sedimentation of novelties, such as: the uncertainty in family succession, the continuity of the social network of the actors and the dependence on public policies and actions of the State.