O biodiesel com certificado social como política pública de inclusão social: estudo de caso sob a perspectiva da pobreza multidimensional

Abstract

This work focuses on measuring the effects of public policy of social inclusion of family farmers through the use of biodiesel with social certificate, in the analysis perspective from the multidimensional poverty. Therefore, research was conducted with was design in an ethnographic case study was made using the qualitative data collection technique from the ethnological collection conception, then the application of a questionnaire enclosed in the technical research saturations. Thus, the collection work consumed nearly six years of living in place with the members of the sample having been produced footages, consultations to more than 10,000 documents, active participation in more than 50 meetings and other personal contacts with members of cooperative production of family farmers, the sample universe with the objective of penetrating this universe to deeply know the results of this public policy implementation followed by the application of a closed questionnaire in 2016. In the conceptual theoretical aspect, it sought to analyze the state of the art concepts of public policy concerning the study; social inclusion; poverty; multidimensional poverty as support for better understanding of the object of the study. The research also shows the quantitative situation of poverty in the State of Bahia and Bahia municipality of “Morro do Chapéu”, research locus, as indicators of social inclusion needs from an utilitarian analysis although the focus of social inclusion treated in the study is one which is based on the multidimensional poverty towards development of individuals capabilities – “capacidades”, in a free translation – which enable its bearer to the fulfillment of "functions", including those related to the right to make economic choices as well. Because of the use of social certified biodiesel as a public policy of social inclusion of family farmers, this research also presents an account of the insertion of the fuel in the global and national energy matrix.