“Se juntin nós dois vivesse”: elementos da reaproximação entre econômico e social na política pública de economia solidária e agricultura familiar baiana

Abstract

The emergence of liberal capitalism in the 19th century led to a rupture between the economic and the social and, consequently, to a crisis of civilization. Social and environmental unsustainability and the concentration of income that sterilizes the financial system are some of its consequences. The search for a rapprochement between the economic and the social involves the reterritorialization of the economy and one of the ways would be to promote public policies aimed at the solidarity-based development of territories. This proposal is based on two strategic levels: institutional reconstruction (including economic principles that are not only visible in commercial exchanges) and institutional regulation (seeking to regulate the market through the search for solidarity investors). Understanding the importance of public action, from a multi-actor perspective, to foster this rapprochement, we analyzed the results of an evaluation of a public policy instrument resulting from an extension project between CAR, UFRB and FAPEX, carried out between 2017 and 2022. In this thesis, we ask: ―What elements found in the results of the evaluation research of the public policy instruments to support Solidarity Economic Enterprises and Family Farming financed by CAR/BNDES (Calls for Proposals No. 01/2010 and No. 01/2012) point to reconciliation between the economic and social in the territories?‖. The CAR/UFRB/FAPEX extension project, on which this thesis is based, involved several stages and instruments, including: team formation, instrument construction, document analysis, sample selection, interviews, field diary, application of the reflective self-assessment game for solidarity enterprises (mandala), database construction and preparation of the final report, as well as a documentary. The research for this thesis prioritized qualitative data, seeking a deep and subjective understanding of the results of the projects evaluated. Content analysis was used to identify elements of rapprochement between the economic and the social and the re solidarization of organizations. Emphasis was placed on the innovative mandala methodology, which sought reflexivity and positionality in the evaluations. As a result, we identified some elements that contributed to overcoming the multidimensional challenges, such as access to the institutional market and valuing local culture by promoting products linked to territorial vocation. We identified that the socio-political dimension was predominant, especially the sub-dimension of public action, which led the enterprises to be vectors of development in their territories. This result led us to contribute to the theoretical framework of the proposal for a public policy aimed at the solidarity-based development of territories by including a further strategic level, namely inter-institutional strengthening by encouraging networking in the territory.