Instituições dinâmicas e ligações no desenvolvimento agrário de Moçambique : educação vocacional como alternativa para a Revolução Verde

Abstract

In view of the poverty scenario and a backward stage of family agriculture in the country, several strategies, policies, development plans and projects have been developed, with the fundamental objective of laying the foundations for a highly productive, competitive agriculture, integrated in the chains of product and value, as well as participating in national and international markets. This involves accelerating technological change among the peasants. Since the 1950s, theoretical approaches and models of agricultural development have been experimented with in different contexts of the economy, naturally from different perspectives. Among the various models of rural development, the Schultz model is the most relevant and consistent for agriculture in Mozambique. Analyzes of statistical data give consistency to this finding, denote typical aspects of Traditional Agriculture described by the model. These similarities have as policy implications the application of pathways suggested by Schultz for the success of rural transformation. Having verified that Agriculture has a positive relationship with other sectors of the economy, in the same way that other sectors influence Agriculture, the concern for making Agriculture a developed practice is growing. In response to the failures of linear approaches to development, mainly with regard to factorial endowments, since, for the classics, development is a linear function of the availability of factors. More recent approaches to (endogenous) development take the technological issue as the basis for development to occur (innovation and technology), however education is essential in this process of technology transfer. Schultz argues that the acquisition of skills by farmers is crucial to the modernization of agriculture;