DIGITALIZATION AND TERRITORIAL INEQUALITIES: obstacles and opportunities for Family Farming.
The use of digital technologies in the restructuring of social and institutional contexts is an increasingly present trend in contemporary society. This phenomenon, also called digitalization, is significantly transforming all sectors of the economy, promoting changes in the forms of production, commercialization and consumption in a world in which the virtualization of human relations is increasingly reinforced. This dissertation intends to contribute to the analysis of the relationship between this phenomenon and the Brazilian countryside, seeking to observe the barriers and opportunities for Family Farming, demonstrating that constituted inequalities limit the scope of this phenomenon as a possibility of inclusion. The first chapter presents a more general discussion of what digitization means, exposing some of its propagated contradictions and opportunities. The second chapter seeks to demonstrate that the digitization opportunities reported by the literature end up being limited by the unequal structures of the Brazilian countryside. The third chapter seeks to show how the debate is taking shape, taking into account three dimensions: 1) The use of digital platforms by Family Farming; 2) Family Farming and the application of Agriculture 4.0 resources; 3) Communication and Marketing of Family Farming products in the digital world.