AGRARIAN SYSTEMS: A CONCEPTUAL REVISION AND IDENTIFICATION METHODS AS STRATEGIES TO ESTABLISH PUBLIC POLICIES

Abstract

A review of agrarian systems theory made, includes: context, classification, definition, delimitation, rationality, taxonomy and limitations. The paper aggregates and synthesizes a theme that, at present, is widely used and dispersed. It treats various aspects of the agricultural production unit inserted in the different physical, economic and social environments; the coexistence of differentiated forms of production; and the behavior and strategies of each productor or group of productors. The author concludes that the quantitative methodology that served as tools for analysis have evolved. However, since agrarian systems are faced by objective and subjective variables and the existing methodologies are able to identify only the first ones, there is a need to bring this methodology together with theoretical and empiric knowledge and the researcher in relation to rural territory to be analyzed. In addiction, the study concludes that there is conceptual difference between production system and agrarian system. The first one is related to objectives while the second one, in addiction to objective, has in its conceptual context the subjectivity rationality of the system. Additionally, the study concludes that there is a conceptual difference between production system and agrarian system. The first one is conformed for objective variables, while the second one, in addition to objective variables, has in its context framework the subjectivity/rationality of the system.