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Abstract
The article discusses the value and importance of the selfconsumption
production in the social reproduction of the family units
and it characterizes the food self-consumed. The paper used the research
“Family Farm, Local Development and Pluriactivity” (UFRGS/
UFPel/CNPq-2003) that propitiated the formation of a database with
information on the dynamics of the family farm in four areas different
from the geography of the Rio Grande do Sul, your sources and types of
income, among these the self-consumption. To bring this debate means
to retake a theme little discussed until then, and that, although marginalized
or considered without importance, it develops important role as
income non monetary, strengthens the food security and it penetrates
spheres of the sociability and social identity. Besides the introduction,
is presented the role of the self-consumption in the family farm, the
calculation of the self-consumption production, discussion of the objectives
and results, and final considerations. The results demonstrate that
the self-consumption production is an appealing strategy for the family
units and it differs in agreement with the dynamics of the family farm.
It differentiates this expresses in relative values (%) and in the number
of establishments belonging to differentiated strata of self-consumption,
and a little in the types of foods produced for this end, being observed
a homogeneity of the alimentary habits.