Cooperativismo e associativismo na produção agropecuária de menor porte no Brasil

Resumo

Collective production organizations (cooperatives and associations) can bargain for better prices and lower
 costs, which increases net revenue, on the one hand, and facilitates the adoption of technologies, on the other.
 This study seeks to evaluate the impact of family production in Brazil and its relationship with the productive
 structure. As a hypothesis, it is believed that collective production organizations (cooperatives or producers’
 associations) contribute to the growth of smaller agricultural production and to the more efficient use of
 resources. Therefore, first, a production function was estimated, using the local spatial stochastic frontier model, to assess the productive dynamics and the institutional presence of cooperatives and associations in Brazilian municipalities. Then, the sources of technical efficiency of the smaller production were measured. Based on the 2017 Agricultural Census, it was found that the regional percentage of family farming production in cooperatives and associations has a positive effect on the gross value of production and on local development. The results showed that the municipalities in the Northeast have lower technical efficiency than those in the South, Southeast and Midwest. This conclusion is related to the institutional environment, which in the South can promote policies with greater local integration (bottom-up) and which in the Northeast depends on more centralized actions, with low insertion of local institutions (top-down). Variables such as education, technical orientation and precipitation contributed to efficiency gains. Therefore, the promotion of collective arrangements and the inclusion of local institutions are a relevant regional development instrument in the context of productive growth, which in turn increases the technical efficiency of small-scale agricultural production in Brazil.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Estudo

Ano

2021

Instituição

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea)

Fonte

Repositório do Ipea

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/10833

Licença

Licença Padrão Ipea

Abrangência

Brasil

Temas

Desenvolvimento Regional

Palavras-chave

Empresas Agrícolas FamiliaresCooperativas AgrícolasProdução AgropecuáriaAgricultura familiarProdução de pequeno porteCooperativasAssociações