O objetivo deste estudo foi apresentar as perspectivas teóricas e normativas utilizadas para definir jovens e juventude, resgatar pesquisas brasileiras sobre jovens rurais, identificando critérios de definição utilizados e os resultados das investigações. Metodologicamente é uma pesquisa bibliográfica. Os resultados demonstraram existir diversos estudos sobre a temática no Brasil, que utilizam distintas formas de definir juventude rural. O foco das pesquisas brasileiras está na problemática da sucessão rural e elevada migração rural-urbana, além da busca de ações para solucioná-la

Family farming is relevant for the generation of employment and income in the countryside. The objective of this study is to analyze the challenges and potentialities in the socioeconomic dynamics of agriculture through the institutional food market in the area of operation of a family farming cooperative. A qualitative case study was carried out in the north of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, through eighteen in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed using the content analysis method, considering five categories: economic, social, environmental, food security, and family succession. The results indicate that labor shortage and excessive bureaucracy are constant challenges. Furthermore, effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of information, and lack of succession are among the main challenges of the institutional market from the perspective of the social agents participating in the research. On the other hand, the institutional commercialization channel, via the National School Feeding Program, is a consolidated public policy in the region, and one of the greatest benefits identified was the increase in the income of the cooperative members. Among the main potentialities of the institutional market from the agents’ point of view are income guarantee, institutional relations, support from cooperatives and technical assistance and rural extension, women’s involvement, and productive diversification. The results can support the implementation and strengthening of similar programs in other countries.

The objective of the study was to analyze the possibilities of permanence in rural zones and familysuccession in agriculture among urban and rural students at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Sertão Campus. The empirical data in this quantitative study was obtained through a survey that included all of the rural and urban youth at the campus. This data was later analyzed by the PSPP statistical program (chi-square test). It was concluded that young rural men are more encouraged and more interested in being the operators and successors of rural properties and have more interest in continuing to live in rural areas. Agricultural science students also demonstrate more interest in family succession, but the gender different remains in this population.

As temáticas “gênero”, “jovens rurais” e “sucessão geracional” são centrais em pesquisas e debates acadêmicos, políticos e de movimentos sociais em todo o mundo (Anjos & Caldas, 2005 Anjos, F. S., & Caldas, N. V. (2005). O futuro ameaçado: o mundo rural face aos desafios da masculinização, do envelhecimento e da desagrarização. Ensaios FEE, 26(1), 661-694. ; Silva, 2019 Silva, M. R. (2019). Gênero, desigualdades e agricultura: a mulher na atividade agrícola familiar. Brazilian Journal of Development, 5(3), 2095-2105. http://dx.doi.org/10.34117/bjdv5n3-1227 http://dx.doi.org/10.34117/bjdv5n3-1227... ). Esses temas são transversais, já que os jovens rurais são os sujeitos diretamente relacionados à continuidade das propriedades rurais, principalmente a partir da sucessão intrafamiliar (Lucky et al., 2011 Lucky, E. O. I., Minai, M. S., & Adebayo, O. I. (2011). A conceptual framework of family business succession: bane of family business continuity. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2(18), 106-113. ). Contudo, a maioria das propriedades rurais enfrenta dificuldades na concretização da transferência de ativos tangíveis e intangíveis (sucessão rural) das gerações mais velhas para as novas gerações, além disso, problemas econômicos e sociais são gerados pelo abandono do campo pelo jovem e, especialmente, pela jovem mulher (Grubbström & Sooväli-Sepping, 2012 Grubbström, A., & Sooväli-Sepping, H. (2012). Estonian family farms in transition: a study of intangible assets and gender issues in generational succession. Journal of Historical Geography, 38(3), 329-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.03.001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.03.... ; Boscardin & Conterato, 2017 Boscardin, M., & Conterato, M. A. (2017). As mudanças nos padrões sucessórios e suas implicações no destino das propriedades entre agricultores familiares no norte do Rio Grande do Sul. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, 25(3), 671. http://dx.doi.org/10.36920/esa-v25n3-9 http://dx.doi.org/10.36920/esa-v25n3-9... ).