COMMERCIALIZATION AND PURCHASE NETWORKS OF NORTHEASTERN PRODUCTS IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT (DF)

Abstract

The familiar agriculture is loosing space because of the intensification of the process of globalisation and as well because of the agro-industrial complexes in Brazilian internal market, which is increasing the exclusion process of the production of this sector. Taking this into account, we should search for possible ways to prevent the people that depend on the familiar agriculture for their survival to loose the ability of living in the rural area and face the only possible alternative of migration to the peripheries of the cities, in a process of de-territorialization. One possible way for them to keep their territories is the formation of nets of trade based on solidarity between the familiar agriculture and the people from northeast that migrated to the cities in the time when the process of industrialization was on its best performance, and the absorption of labour was very high. The migrants do not loose their relations with their area of origin, so they create commerce of typical products from the Northeast. The nets of trade based on solidarity that creates bonds between producers and consumers, increasing the access of the familiar farmers to the market, increasing their opportunities of trading, increasing the creation or maintenance of jobs, and increasing their standards of living, through the increase in their incomes. The general consequence is the reduction of poverty. The nets of trade, based on solidarity, connecting production and consumption, represent a possibility for the familiar farmers to leave the vicious circle of exploitation that allows the intermediaries agents to earn the major part of accumulation and savings, and start a virtuous circle in a way that they would be able to earn the profits generated by their work.