Juventude e a sucessão familiar rural: das abordagens teóricas ao trabalho empírico em comunidades rurais do estado do Paraná

Abstract

The countryside in southern Brazil, as well as in other regions and countries, has been losing population, aging and masculinizing. In this context the question of the permanence of the young people, mainly those of families with little land. For the purposes of this study, research was developed in two rural communities to understand the problem through observation and interviews with young people and their families. One of the communities is formed mostly by small landowners, who are also very steep, and another has unequal land structure - large and small landowners. It is concluded that it is necessary to consider access to land and the dynamics of the domain of financial capital over agriculture - which constantly changes what, how much, who and how is produced - as central elements to understand the rural family succession and the possibilities of staying in the countryside.