Productive systems and public policy in rural settlements of São Paulo: similarities and differences between two regions

Abstract

This paper presents results of research with federal settlements in two geographical regions of the state of SãoPaulo: the Central and Eastern region. We focus here characterize the main types of production systems and marketing, in which we high light the part destined to family self-consumption and flow through institutional markets. We show that both diversification of agricultural production and commercialization are strategic for the families settled. Other points high lighte dare thes tages of production and sources offunding. This picture of the production systems makes it clear that the settlements contribute to that families have better access to food, from access to land.The survey also showed that there settled families will constitute a consumer market fortheir production and even an internal market in the settlements,but with the recent purchase programs of the government guarantees of product floware largerand, therefore, intensifies there garding settlement sand cities.