Oliveira, Guilherme Resende2024-03-182024-03-182018SILVA, Fernanda Pereira da. Agricultura familiar no cerrado goiano: estudo de caso da transição agroecológica na cooperativa cooperafi no município de Itapuranga- GO. Goiânia (GO), 2018. 98 f. Dissertação (Mestrado Profissional em Administração) - Centro Universitário Alves Faria, 2018http://repositorio.unialfa.com.br/handle/123456789/326The growing importance of family farming in Itapuranga, a municipality of the State of Goiás has stimulated new approaches in the search for agro-systems sustainable, as well as the conservation and expansion of biodiversity of agricultural systems. In this sense, agroecology adopts the basic principles to be less dependent as possible on external inputs and the conservation of natural resources. The goal of this dissertation is to analyze the advances, benefits and difficulties of the transition agro-ecological production system of fruits and vegetables of the farmers in Itapuranga linked to the cooperative cooperafi. The methodology used is based on the study of a combination of methods, the use of bibliographic research and research techniques for collection of field data such as: questionnaire, interviews and observation. According to the results it is noticeable the satisfaction of working with the agro ecological practices, which have invested in manpower and technical assistance and that in turn had a 15 (ha) and more land agree that its revenues increased even though they had difficulties to give continuity to the projects due to the lack of technical support after the completion of the projects. During the execution of the technical assistance was cited as a problem due to a lot of staff turnover and the change in the wizard, each one made of a way and treated in different ways. The farmers claim that the cooperative played a key role for the achievement and release from PRONAF and contemplations of projects, was responsible for the social reproduction of these family farmers, and by inserting them to the market productive. For this reason, count always with the support of the cooperative that the farmers who work with agro-ecology were excluded with the current management that has practically eliminated such practices of the cooperative, and this fact was the cause of the output of many of the cooperafi. Even with so many mishaps, the farmer who works with the agro-ecosystem feels encouraged to continue on this path and refine your processes even without the support of the cooperative. It is concluded that through the projects of agro-ecology extension it is possible to see consolidated and strengthened the experiments in the properties studied, and find that their results (reduction in use of chemical inputs and pesticides, best management practices, and care of the soil, etc.) these are facts proven in the functioning of the processes, agro-ecological, and that despite the limitations, the transition developed in Itapuranga represents a potential for sustainability of family farming.ptAgricultura familiarAgroecologiaCooperativismo