Public policies for productive inclusion of family farmers: between continuities and discontinuities in the Brazilian political agenda

Abstract

As a way to apprehend the referential that guides public policies for family farming, we seek to understand how the mediators, classified in five "social worlds" (extensionist, manager, researcher, teacher and social movements), identify the policies that were most focused on productive inclusion in the last three decades (1990-2020). For this, we used the semi-structured interview technique carried out with 80 social mediators who work with the public of family farming in the state of Tocantins. It is concluded that despite the change in the "referential" of government policies aimed at incorporating the notion of productive inclusion, this does not coincide, in most cases, with the ideas and practices of the mediators involved in the processes of socio-technical intervention with different groups of family farmers.