MECHANIZATION OF FAMILY FARMING UNDER THE BRAZIL-CHINA PARTNERSHIP

Homero Antunes de Souza Neto; CLESIO MARCELINO DE JESUS; Juliana Silva Guimarães

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Trabalho

DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1444131

Título do Trabalho

MECHANIZATION OF FAMILY FARMING UNDER THE BRAZIL-CHINA PARTNERSHIP

Autores

Homero Antunes de Souza Neto
CLESIO MARCELINO DE JESUS
Juliana Silva Guimarães

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 11 - BRICS+ and the Global Agri-Food System: Challenges and Prospects

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

Página do Trabalho

https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1444131-mechanization-of-family-farming-under-the-brazil-china-partnership

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

family farming, brazil-china cooperation, agricultural mechanization, technology transfer, rural development.

Resumo

Brazil has adopted various policies to address the challenges of family farming development, exemplified by the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (Pronaf), implemented since the 1990s. More recently, the country has established a series of cooperation mechanisms with China to modernize Brazilian family farming. These agreements, such as the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the Northeast Consortium and two other memoranda signed by President Lula during visits to China, aim to test Chinese machinery adapted for small-scale rural producers, tailor it to the demands of Brazilian family farming, and foster its domestic production. Furthermore, they seek to enhance this sector's capacity to contribute to strategic objectives such as the energy transition and to address historical challenges of the Brazilian agricultural sector, notably regional inequality in project financing. Based on this context, the article departs from two fundamental hypotheses. The first is that projects created under these partnerships confront historical bottlenecks related to issues such as technological dependence and other practical problems evidenced by preliminary tests in the Northeast region, for instance, the need for agricultural equipment with more practical starting systems, as seen with electric starters. Conversely, based on these same tests, a reduction of 90% in physical effort for agricultural tasks and the emergence of a National Innovation System (SNI) within the family farming sector have been observed. Therefore, a second hypothesis is posited: such partnerships hold broad potential for improving this industry. Consequently, this article investigates the limits and possibilities of these initiatives through a bibliographic review, audiovisual content analysis, and descriptive analysis of consolidated data. The ultimate aim is to identify the bottlenecks that could jeopardize the project and to suggest pathways and opportunities to overcome them.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
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Como citar

NETO, Homero Antunes de Souza; JESUS, CLESIO MARCELINO DE; GUIMARÃES, Juliana Silva. MECHANIZATION OF FAMILY FARMING UNDER THE BRAZIL-CHINA PARTNERSHIP.. In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1444131-MECHANIZATION-OF-FAMILY-FARMING-UNDER-THE-BRAZIL-CHINA-PARTNERSHIP. Acesso em: 24/09/2026