Estratégias de reprodução social entre um grupo de produtores: uma análise a partir de produtores no vale de Infulene, província de Maputo

Abstract

The present work analyzes strategies of social reproduction in the Agricultural sector between a group of young producers from the Infulene valley in Maputo province. from literature analyzed on the strategy of social reproduction in the Agricultural sector, I identified two perspectives from which the first analyzes the family agrarian production of subsistence and of self-consumption. The second analyzes the agricultural sector based on gender and explains that women farmers play a decisive role in carrying out the activities related to production. If, on the one hand, this literature allows us to understand that the agricultural sector is mostly characterized by family farming that practices agriculture for self-support and family, on the other hand are left to understand the details about the role of agriculture in people's lives and how they use it as social reproduction strategy. To understand these details I carried out an exploratory ethnographic research between a group of producers from the Infulene Valley. From the analyzed data I understood that part of the participants uses agriculture as one of the forms of social reproduction, alongside other strategies and another uses only agriculture as its strategy of social reproduction. I also understood that there are producers who live only on agriculture. The data of this research also allow us to understand that the participants and their relatives combine farming with other activities as a way of increasing their their source of income and guarantee of their social reproduction.