Associativismo e autogestão: análise da Associação de Caprinos e Ovinos de Nova Floresta.

Abstract

The objective of this work was to evaluate the reality of the Association of Capnno Ovinocultura (APCONF) of the municipality of Nova Floresta - PB as an alternative for development local and mdtvidual, as well as verifying its potential to promote the capacity of the manpower, its management policies and relationship with the Solidarity Economy. You methodological procedures used to construct the research were based in references on the subject and field research (interviews, questionnaires and observations) Together with the members surveyed. In this practice of individual economics, the The developed mformat activities provide a form of social organization that, in addition to generating income, it contributes to the rescue and/or construction of the citizenship of participants The collective organization, specifically in this experience. Provides a different way of seeing and relating by building new paradigms economic, political and cultural, based on cooperation in addition to opening new horizons for the commercialization process. In general, this is observed in the practices of formal activities that are developed in isolation, which takes into account only the economic aspect where people work mdtvidually. sustainability of the analyzed project, although it allows for ways to survival for some, does not constitute a sustainable economic alternative. It was found that the Solidarity Economy in the association still needs to be better clarified, just asstm, there may be important changes in the cottdtano of the small producer, mcenttvando equity, the democrat. cooperation, solidarity, quality of relationships at work, and, above all, the valorization of the human being.