AGROECOLOGÍA Y POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS SACANDO DE LA INVISIBILIDAD A LA AVICULTURA DE PEQUEÑA ESCALA Y SUS AGENTES

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5International audienceThe small-scale poultry production has a widespread distribution on the farms of family farming in Espírito Santo State, Brazil. This activity plays an important ecological and socio-economic role, and it is fundamental to social reproduction of rural communities. However, it has been a marginal issue in institutional agendas of both agencies of rural development and research and even in the instances of social representation of these actors. Its invisibility keeps also hidden the potentialities of agents like young people and women who are important protagonists in small scale of animal production. Recently, significant changes in local institutional action can be seen after the adoption of agroecological approaches and a bigger support by specific credit policies to family farms. These changes are showing new possibilities for rediscovering small scale poultry production and repositioning the relevance of this activity, including in providing greater social equity in the countryside