A mudança da monocultura do fumo no agreste alagoano: Seus arranjos produtivos locais e os impactos na estrutura social

Abstract

For decades the tobacco culture provided the generation of employment and income, especially wealth formation for few families holders of processing facilities and production in Alagoas untamed region. Family farms used their land for planting a single crop, without the possibility to arbitrate on the purchase and sale of securities, since their harvest was usually bound to a single buyer. With the public health issue of reducing tobacco consumption, falls in domestic sales and external, caused the Brazilian government to develop public policies for social and economic development with emphasis on diversification of family farming, thus resulting arrangements productive sites and a new social structure.