Sistemas agroindustriais sustentáveis: uma aplicação da economia dos custos de transação

Abstract

The understanding of the coordination of sustainable agribusiness systems is essential for the analysis of own competiveness and agribusiness efficiency. Once agribusiness activities are strongly dependent on natural resources, agribusiness and sustainability theme are clearly related. The present article aims to describe and comprehend the governance standard and the institutions and organizations roles for coordinating the productive and marketing systems of organics vegetable trade of the Integrated and Sustainable Agroecological Production (ISAP) in Campo Grande/MS. The ISAP Project is an initiative of National SEBRAE which focuses on generating income for family farmers, combining sustainable practices with productive activities. The theoretical framework rested on New Institutional Economics (NIE), specifically on Transaction Costs Economics (TCE). This research is exploratory and it adopts a qualitative methodological approach with primary data mapping, using semi-structured questionnaires with 37 farmers. The transactions were identified and characterized along the productive system, beyond the evaluation of the farmers’ families profile involved in the project. It was verified that ISAP Project is divided in two subsystems, one with a cooperative actions and other without them. The guarantee production sale to government programs stands out as the main point of the Project, which have been relevant to the production flow. Likewise, the high reliance on governmental programs and the heterogeneity of producers represent vulnerabilities of the productive system itself.