The main purpose of this research was to identify and describe how beef producers and urban investors feel about the environment in which they act by comparing favorable and limiting factors associated with the development of partnerships between the two groups in the northern region of the State of Minas Gerais. A focused-interview method was used to collect data and interviews were conducted among four producers and four investors who had previously, or were still involved in partnerships, chosen by means of a purposive sampling technique. The following factors were cited by investors as incentives to participating in partnerships: insufficient capital to purchase land and personally raise cattle, the profits possible from cattle raising, the rapid... |