Analysis of Productive Chains Under Management of Cooperating Fam ilies Linked to the Movement of Landless Workers

Abstract

The work has for objective to show, from the theoretical research and concrete experiences existing in some states of Brazil, the organization of small solidary productive chains, whose strategical links are under control of families cooperated organized in agrarian reform nestings associates to Movement of the Agricultural Workers Without Land (MST) and that they contribute for improvement the life’s quality. These experiences oppose to the historical process organization of traditional productive chains whose relation, peasant and agribusiness entrepreneur, reproduce relations of dependence and subordination. We emphasize the importance given to the educational formation and technique, administrative politics, development of the cooperation and the organization of small plants, such as chicken, milk, swine and others. The article has five sections. The first section is an analysis of the cooperation within the MST (Landless People Movement), while the second is about the means of cooperation in agrarian reform cooperatives which are part of the MST. The third section is an analysis of the solidary economy category. The forth section discusses the productive chains that represent a new form or solidarity. The fifth section is about the MST experience with COPAVI ( Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Vitória LTDA).