Influential factors and decision making in banana production systems in north coast of Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Rural production systems operate in a dynamic and inconstant environment that is stimulated by external agents such as political, random and economic, and internal agents of productive, social (beliefs, values). This paper aims to assess whether the analytical categories developed by Gasson (1973) could help understanding the constitutive differences in production systems. That is, considering the theoretical contributions of the theory of systems and the theory of decision, try to understand which factors would influence the actions taken by farmers related to the cultivation of bananas in the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, in order to define and organize their production systems. As a result, we can consider that, associating the theoretical perspective of production systems with the analytical categories of the factors of influence, the capacity to analyze the factors that constitute the environment and the social space within the production system is inserted expand. Allowing the capacity for reasoning and understanding of relationships within the system is actually within a systemic view.