THE IMPACT OF FAMILY FARMERS’ LAND OWNERSHIP ON ACCESS TO RURAL CREDIT

Authors

  • Thyena Karen Magalhães Dias Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
  • Vitor Hugo Miro Couto Silva Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
  • Edward Martins Costa Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
  • Ahmad Saeed Khan Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.38116/ppp58art2

Keywords:

posse de terra, agricultor familiar, crédito rural

Abstract

Investment in the rural resources sector was destined costing, investment and commercialization, being the main instrument of the Brazilian agricultural policy. However, the absence of well-defined land ownership rights is a credit constraint, as this asset is used as collateral. This restriction is even more severe for small farmers who, in Brazil, have the National Program for the Strengthening Family Farming (Pronaf) as the only policy aimed at this public. Thus, the present study, through the micro-data from the National Household Sample Survey of 2014, sought to assess the impact of land tenure of People Potentially Classified as a Family Farmer (PPCAF) on rural credit in Brazil, using the methods of entropy balancing and Propensity Score Matching, and finally, the sensitivity analysis was done in order to verify the robustness due to omitted variables. According to the results obtained, land ownership is positively related to rural credit, mainly in the Southeast region, while the South and Center-West were not statistically significant.

Author Biographies

Thyena Karen Magalhães Dias, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Mestranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Economia Rural – PPGER/UFC.

Vitor Hugo Miro Couto Silva, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Doutor em Economia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Professor do Departamento de Economia Agrícola e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia Rural (DEA-PPGER-UFC).

Edward Martins Costa, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Doutor em Economia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Professor do Departamento de Economia Agrícola e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia Rural (DEA-PPGER-UFC). Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa nível 2 – CNPq.

Ahmad Saeed Khan, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Doutor em Economia Agrícola e Recursos Naturais pela Oregon State University (OSU). Professor do Departamento de Economia Agrícola e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia Rural (DEA-PPGER-UFC). Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa nível 1A– CNPq.

Published

2021-11-22

How to Cite

Dias, T. K. M., Silva, V. H. M. C., Costa, E. M., & Khan, A. S. (2021). THE IMPACT OF FAMILY FARMERS’ LAND OWNERSHIP ON ACCESS TO RURAL CREDIT. Planejamento E Políticas Públicas, (58). https://doi.org/10.38116/ppp58art2

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