Socioeconomic impacts of technology adoption on small and medium-sized producers

• Grant number: 25/25188-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2026
• End date: December 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Administration of Specific Sectors
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Henrique Montagnana Vicente Leme
• Grantee: Gabriela Sabrina Rezende Furtado
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (FCSA). Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA). Lavras , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/09319-9 - Center of Science for Development in Digital Agriculture - CCD-AD/SemeAr, AP.CCD

Abstract

"Agriculture 4.0" represents great potential to contribute to the expansion of the competitiveness of Brazilian agribusiness. To take advantage of this potential, it is intended to identify and propose strategic practices together with farmers and ranchers inserted in Agro-Technological Districts (DATs) through multidisciplinary practices. To achieve the proposed objective, mappings will be carried out in the DAT Ingaí-MG, and subsequent monitoring through indicators. Using quantitative studies (surveys) and qualitative studies (interviews, focus groups) it is sought to understand how the process of adoption of technologies by Brazilian farmers and ranchers takes place and how this technology enables the improvement of the socioeconomic conditions of the producer and the ecosystem in which he is inserted. Based on the aggregated data, it is intended to carry out diagnoses that will support the development of solutions for farmers and ranchers, technical reports and scientific research that aim to disseminate the impact of the actions of this project in the context of the rural producer, and training according to the needs of the actors involved in the DATs. (AU)