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The family farming sector is of fundamental importance for food safety in Brazil and other countries. This sector mobilizes 14 million people and represents 60% of the agricultural workers. The small farms represent 75% of the rural properties, 25% of national cultivated land and 35% of the national agricultural production (IBGE, 2006)1. A great diversity of food, especially that which forms the basis of the diet of the Brazilian population originates from small farmers, in particular those who work in the vegetable sector. The main characteristic of this production is that it happens in small family farms with a predominance of short production cycles, strong seasonality, intensive use of manpower and highly perishable products. Besides their logistics difficulties to access their clients, the small family farmers also have problems to insert their products in the institutional and fair trade market that requires volume, special schedules and higher quality standards. That means that the products present short post-harvest periods, which influence the location of the crops, which must be preferentially close to the consumer market. These elements presented demand researches related to process and practices that can increase the shelf life of these products. In this context, we verify a tendency of the family farmers to organize themselves in associations or cooperatives. That is why it is necessary to analyze how logistics can be a strategic instrument of competitiveness for these organizations. They really need to be organized to access markets and that is why logistics management can improve their level of organization, helping them to become more efficient and have better management, not only of their production, but also of storage and distribution processes. The challenge is to distinguish the context of each group of family farmers (vegetables, dairy, handicrafts, tourism and others), even if they do more than one of these activities. There are particularities existing in each one of the logistic chains of family farmers’ products and that makes the complexity of these chains a challenging search for solutions. If the implementation of integrated logistics is complex for large companies, the same logic can be applied to small organizations, even if the contexts are distinct. While large

Integrated Logistics in the Supply of Products Originating from Family Farming Organizations