This article examines the main tendencies and perspectives of peasant family farming (PFF) in agricultural frontiers such as the Amazon. The ontological features of PFF are discussed, in particular the multiple associations with, and subsumption to, agribusiness. Due to national politico-economic pressures, the Amazon was reinvented half a century ago as a vibrant agricultural frontier that attracted a vast contingent of migrants due to coordinated government plans and, in more recent years, the cultivation of export-oriented crops. One very intriguing feature of this dynamic geography is that small family farming represents the Other of capitalist agriculture, but it functions as a hesitant form of alterity that both resists and fulfils agribusiness.

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亚马逊南部地区的农民耕种：农业综合企业的勉强改变

本文研究了诸如亚马逊之类的农业前沿领域中农民家庭农业的主要趋势和观点。讨论了PFF的本体论特征，特别是与农业综合企业的多种关联和对其的归纳。由于国家政治经济的压力，半个多世纪前的亚马逊被重新改造为一个充满活力的农业前沿，由于政府的协调计划以及最近几年种植的出口导向型作物，吸引了大批移民。这种动态地理的一个非常吸引人的特征是，小型家庭农业代表了资本主义农业的“另一种”，但它却起着犹豫不决的变化形式，既抵制又实现了农业综合企业。