A model of cultural intelligence and popular participation for family farming - DOI: 10.7127/rbai.v1801310

Resumo

To eliminate the dispersion and overlapping of efforts and improve the effectiveness of resource allocation for family farming, there is a growing consensus on the urgent need to integrate and systematize information that can facilitate access by managers, farmers' networks, academia, the private sector and other non-state actors. The participation of organized civil society in government programs, especially for family farmers, can improve their effectiveness. According to Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen, human freedoms are both means and ends for the development of nations. One of the most important freedoms in this regard is that of popular participation. Offering a new perspective to the existing literature, and based on the approach of development as freedom, this article presents a theoretical model of public governance with society, which could be applied in a policy of popular participation. The study concludes that the integration of knowledge management practices, with attention to cultural intelligence, is the best way to share and apply collective knowledge and thus increase the effectiveness of family farming projects.