Family farming and the multifunctional tripod – pluriative – sustainable: non-agricultural activities transforming agricultural space

Abstract

Combining the international concern with sustainability and healthy food to poor initial results of the National Programme for the Strengthening of Family Agriculture (Pronaf), brazilian institutions planned transformations, both in the production process and in the form of income generation, covering, with the program's credit, the multifunctionality and the multiple activities under the context of territorial sustainability. This article aims to discuss these issues and your impact on the space and dynamics in nonagricultural activities, and how these phenomena are covered in the policies for the sector.