Desenvolvimento em (des) construção: narrativas escalares sobre desenvolvimento territorial rural

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Controvérsias do desenvolvimento dos assentamentos rurais em São Paulo: produção para os biocombustíveis e as alternativas de programas municipais

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A geografia agrária brasileira: dinâmica, variada e complexa

This paper is a contribution to the debate on the methodological issues surrounding the Land Geography, demonstrating why the Brazilian Agrarian Geography is dynamic, varied and complex. It was chosen as the theme of Research Groups in Geography Agrarian present in Directory Groups CNPq and they held on a characterization considering: home institution, location, year of training, Group name, words and lines of research. The survey allowed the treatment of 70 groups in 2009 had the agrarian geography, agriculture, rural development, rural, rural areas, organization of space and rural development as guiding their research and performances. The analysis of the research lines identifi ed groups concerned with economic, political, ecological, demographic and cultural, and also found concerns with farmers, with their production and the functioning of the agricultural system, being thus, the set of raised lines one can say that there is signifi cant diversity in themes, which reinforces the hypothesis of dynamism, variety and complexity of studies on agriculture today.