Assentamento Lagoa Grande, em Dourados, MS: aspectos socioeconômicos, limitações e potencialidades para o seu desenvolvimento

Abstract

To liveand create livelihood strategies to stay in properties of rural settlements, on land unproductive, far from urban centers, where there is lacking basic infrastructure services, has been a major challenge for family farmers across the country and especially in Mato Grosso do Sul State. From this perspective, this study intends to analyze the demographic and socioeconomic setting of rural Lagoa Grande settlement, located in Dourados-MS City, in order to identify driving factors for its development. The methodology consisted of a field research, with the completion of data collection through the use of questionnaires to residents, having visited all the properties of the settlement. The results confirm the significant relationship between the brazilian agrarian reform and the importance that the family farming had been acquiring Brasil. However, the area occupied by family farms still continues in much lower proportion when compared to unfamiliar agriculture, specifically in Mato Grosso do Sul State, where there is still a significant concentration of land. In what concerns to Lagoa Grande, was identified some negative factors. However, we highlight the driving factors as the level of satisfaction with life in the settlement, the experience of the settlers with farming activities and livestock population and its major formed by young students, that if encouraged through appropriate public policies, may be crucial for the survival and development of the properties of the settlement.