Inovações sociais para a agricultura familiar: um estudo do programa um milhão de cisternas rurais na comunidade Lagoa do Fernando, município de Gravatá – PE

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the process of generation, dissemination and adoption of new technologies rural "One Million Cisterns (P1MC)" family farmers in the community pond Fernando in the city of Gravesend, state of Pernambuco. Water is a limited good that has been a constant target of the interests of those who exercise power relationships between members of a society. But political decisions do not seem to consider the limitations of this feature, hence the need to investigate alternatives that address this limitation. In the search for alternatives that may facilitate the coexistence of these inhabitants of semi-arid region of Northeast Brazil with the problem of shortage of water resources were created some programs such as "The One Million Cisterns (P1MC)", which is justified by the maximum use of water resources in the region. The analysis model is supported by the Institutionalism Theory. We analyze the analytical dimensions of the generation, dissemination and adoption. The process of generating this dissertation is bent in tangible and intangible aspects, being represented respectively by product and process required to create the tank plate. As for the diffusion process is represented in the institutional mechanisms coercive, mimetic and normative. These elements exert pressure on organizations to become more homogeneous in their actions. For the adoption, we used some analytical categories of contributory mechanisms and inhibitors of social innovations: engagement, awareness, learning, care management, transaction and relationship between the part and the whole, leadership, people and institutional context. To compose the triangulation process recommended in qualitative research, exploratory used two different routes of semi-open interviews, one technical and applied to other farmers. In the case of qualitative research to analyze the data from the content analysis. At the end of the paper we indicate the reasons why women have greater power than men on the management of water, due to the mobilization of these women in the processes of awareness, engagement and learning along the P1MC.