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Social and environmental aspects of family farming at Cacoal City, Rondônia State, Brazil

Author(s) -

Aurélio Ferreira Borges,

Edmar da Costa Alves,

Maria dos Anjos Cunha Silva Borges,

Sérgio Nunes de Jesus,

Jessé Alves Batista,

José Luiz Pereira de Rezende

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

african journal of agricultural research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1991-637X

DOI - 10.5897/ajar2013.8084

Subject(s) - agriculture , state (computer science) , geography , environmental protection , socioeconomics , sociology , archaeology , computer science , algorithm

This study aimed to evaluate social and environmental aspects of family farming at Cacoal City, Rondonia State, in Brazil. This is applied in non-experimental (descriptive) research. Questionnaire was designed as the main tool of the study. Eleven (11) semi-structured interviews were conducted with family farmers from eleven cooperative associations. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed in the scientific research, using a questionnaire consisting of twenty four questions that sought to evaluate environmental aspects of the sample of family farmers. It was concluded that agriculture continues to be basis of the local development and rurality model found in the Western

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