ILPC 2026

 The present work has the objective of analyzing the data of the main statistical base on the Brazilian rural space. The Agricultural Census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) is held every 10 years and collects data on several variables that involve agricultural production, income generation and labour in the field. The data of the last census reveal something remarkable in the agricultural history of a country of rural tradition, which is the productive and income-generating supremacy that small production has in Brazil. This research frames these results in the context of the contradiction between this remarkable level of productivity by the peasant and the concentration of  land and capital in the hands of the strata of large agribusiness.  Not only is the supremacy evident in in the production of food (55.4% of the total value of livestock production, 49.7% of the total value of vegetable production) but also in the creation of work and and jobs. The data presents how small producers with up to 200 hectares of land account for 84.3% of the labor in the country’s agriculture.