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Postgraduate Programme in Rural Development (PGDR) Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
1. Introduction
2. Professional profile of applicants and graduates
3. Curriculum structure and requirements for title award
4. Research lines and projects
5. Teaching staff and co-ordination
5.1. Co-ordination (management 2012/2014)
5.2. Teaching Staff
6. Admission process
6.1. Documents required for registration
6.2. Stages of the selection process
7. Additional information
7.1. Language proficiency exam
7.2. Foreign Language Proficiency
7.3. Scholarships
7.4. Academic Calendar
7.5. Fees
8. Address
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The Postgraduate Programme in Rural Development (PGDR) began its activities in 1999 with a Master’s Degree, having launched its PhD course in 2003. This programme is linked to the School of Economic Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Although it is a new programme, PGDR inherits a long tradition of studies on rural areas and agriculture at UFRGS. The programme was created to replace and widen the Postgraduate Course in Rural Economics and Rural Sociology (established in 1963 and in 1965 respectively, both within the MEC-USAID co-operation programme) and, still today, it has its host at the Research Centre of Economic Studies (IEPE).
PGDR has been awarded 5 in the assessment conducted by the Commission for Interdisciplinary Areas from CAPES (Ministry of Education), which is the highest rank in the field. PGDR is defined as a multidisciplinary postgraduate course, since we consider that certain research problems and subjects require approaches which transcend disciplinary boundaries, as it is the case of social and environmental dynamics affecting populations, activities, resources, and rural areas. In this sense, in PGDR rural development is conceived as a process resulting from joined-up actions which aim at producing socio-economic and environmental change within rural areas towards an improvement of the well-being of rural populations. Due to the complex and dynamic nature of rural areas, which is determined by social, economic, soil and climate, and technological factors, PGDR conceives rural development as a process that is permanently evolving, interacting, and hierarchical regarding its results. Moreover, it is characterised by the concrete specificities of these factors at territorial level. Such features determine the nature of rural development as an essentially polysemic multidisciplinary object, thus transcending the epistemological, theoretical and analytical resources used by the traditional disciplines that have independently been dedicated to this topic.
PGDR aims at training professionals at master's and doctoral level to be capable of performing their activity in the fields of teaching, academic research and actions of intervention through the acquisition of methods and concepts which allow them to implement projects and carry out planning activities in favour of rural development. In this sense, the objectives of this programme are (i) to further deepen the understanding on complex agrarian realities in order to create intervention instruments in favour of rural development; (ii) to analyse and evaluate the design, implementation and management of rural development projects and programmes, as well as the consequences of these actions for society; (iii) to investigate the implementation of public policies through the analysis and evaluation of rural development actions implemented at regional and local level; (iv) to analyse the impacts and implications of contemporary public policies based on the participation and decentralisation of rural populations; (v) to connect the insights on rural development with general socio-economic, political and cultural development. These objectives are intended to integrate rural development in a wider view on the concept of social development.
Issues such as the role of the State and of public policies, local and territorial dynamics of family farming, problems connected with forms of mediation, power and domination, mobilisation of social actors, their organisations and institutions are among the topics that stimulate investigation, research, debate and work in PGDR. Similarly, issues related to rural poverty, changes in agricultural production through agro-industrialisation, adding value, integration into markets and production chains and the constitution of new productive arrangements are also important. Issues such as environmental problems, the management of natural resources, the use of biodiversity and its impacts, as well as the study of new technical and productive forms related to ecological agriculture have also been given special attention. The first proposal of PGDR was gradually consolidated around these topics. Nevertheless, new demands for reflection and further deepening have similarly arisen which require a permanent need for theoretical and methodological integration leading to interdisciplinarity. Although some research efforts are already being developed in that direction, it is necessary to recognise that transcending the disciplines of traditional knowledge fields towards interdisciplinary work and reflection is a slow process. The Programme works towards these objectives, although it is presently going through a transition process in which the concept of interdisciplinarity itself is being developed.
2. Professional profile of applicants and graduates
Since its creation, the Programme has received students from all regions of Brazil, from Mercosur countries, from other Latin American countries and, more recently, from Africa (particularly Mozambique, Angola and Cape Verde) and Europe. This interaction has widened the international co-operation actions developed by PGDR, which are established through co-operation agreements with the Eduardo Mondlane University, in Mozambique, and Wageningen University, in The Netherlands. The perspectives that have been opened with the creation of REDSUR - Red de Posgrados e Investigación en Desarrollo Rural en el Cono Sur-, a network composed of research and postgraduate programmes from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, are particularly promising. It is also worth mentioning that, from 2009 on, PGDR will operate through an Inter-institutional PhD (DINTER/CAPES), which will be developed outside the university campus, in co-operation with the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Norte de Minas Gerais (IFNMG - Federal Education, Science and Technology Institute of the North of Minas Gerais) – Campi Januária/MG and Salinas/MG (IFNMG).
The profile of applicants to PGDR is varied. In the beginning, most applicants were Agronomy and Economics graduates. However, in recent years, the scope of disciplines has been widened to areas such as Biology, Law, Sociology, Geography, Administration, History, Veterinary Medicine, and Tourism.
The career destinations of most PGDR PhD graduates are public or private higher education institutions in the three southern states in Brazil, as well as in other regions of the country and even in other Latin American countries. Master’s graduates of the Programme engage in civil society organisations as well as in the different levels of action of the State. It is worth mentioning that an increased number of these graduates are recruited by other postgraduate programmes and centres of academic excellence in Brazil and abroad.
3. Curriculum structure and requirements for title award
PGDR curriculum is composed of two blocks of bi-annual subjects which are common to the master’s and doctoral courses. The first block consists in mandatory subjects that are intended to level students and to provide them with the theoretical basis related to rural development as well as with basic concepts about the scientific method and quantitative and qualitative research techniques. The second block is composed of elective subjects which aim to enhance the academic knowledge of students in several topics related to rural development. Mandatory and elective subjects require class attendance and the dissertation stage is followed-up and monitored by dissertation supervisors. Master’s students are required to present quarterly reports and PhD students must present bi-annual reports as a follow-up on their progress. The maintenance of the students’ link and scholarship depends on these reports.
Students must achieve a minimum of 24 credits (each credit corresponding to 15 hours/class) in order to obtain the title of Master in rural development and a minimum of 36 credits for the PhD in rural development title. Both Master’s dissertation and PhD thesis defences are carried out before an examining committee composed by internal and external teachers and researchers. The periods required for obtaining the title of Master and PhD are of 24 months and 48 months respectively. Nevertheless, this period may be extended for a maximum of six more months in exceptional cases and provided the extension is justified by the supervisor. If a student fails any of the subjects, they will be automatically excluded from the Programme. In addition to the normal subjects from PGDR curriculum, Master’s and PhD students are allowed to attend to other subjects from other postgraduate programmes at UFRGS or even at other universities, provided supervisor permission is obtained. PhD students are also encouraged to do internships in institutions outside Brazil, which favours possible international co-operation activities conducted by PGDR. PhD students are also required to defend their project proposal in a qualifying examination, 24-months after having started the course, before an examining committee. Master’s students are required to publish or send for publication at least one article or book chapter during the period they attend the course. PhD students are required to publish one article or book chapter and to send a second article or book chapter for evaluation during the period they attend the course.
Although PGDR aims to fulfil different existing demands (by governmental and non-governmental organisations), it stands out for its academic perspective based on a further theoretical and methodological development of the rural development-related subjects under study. This is materialised in the quality of the work produced in the form of theses and dissertations which present analyses and interpretations of complex social processes and rural realities that are able to respond to the demands of academic institutions and public and private civil society organisations.
4. Research lines and projects
This Programme is organised into three research lines which are structured so as to correspond to the curriculum structure and to the multidisciplinary demands required for approaching rural development.
Research line 1 - STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC POLICIES - aims to focus on the State and its role as a regulatory, planning and monitoring body of society; to analyse the process of formulation and implementation of public policies; to discuss the demands of and relationships with civil society institutions; to identify the economic and social effects of public policies on agricultural and rural development in Brazil; and to study the changes at international and national level in the organisation, functioning and competitiveness of activities in rural areas and of agro-industrial chains.
Research line 2 – POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MEDIATION, PRODUCTIVE STRUCTURES AND SOCIO-TECHNICAL CONFIGURATIONS IN RURAL AREAS - aims to analyse the social, political, economic and cultural processes and changes in rural areas; to study the dynamics and social forms of labour, production and life; to address collective action constructions and the role of social actors in the territorial dynamics of development; and to focus on political and cultural mediation, actors and institutions in rural areas.
Research line 3 – SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS IN RURAL AREAS – aims to further deepen the debate and reflection on the main contemporary social theories about development, by incorporating the environmental problematic within a multidisciplinary perspective; to analyse the forms of use and ownership of rural areas and agriculture; and to emphasize mediation and social agents involved in socio-environmental dynamics in rural areas and in agriculture.
5. Teaching staff and co-ordination
PGDR teaching staff is composed of permanent Professors and collaborators, in conformity with the kind of credential obtained by the competent body of UFRGS. It is a highly qualified and renowned teaching board that includes several scientific areas (Agronomy, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Geography, Biology, Nursing and Education), which confers it with excellence and diversity. Several teachers of the Programme have been awarded productivity scholarships from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and also possess complementary post-doctoral qualifications from prestigious international universities.
5.1. Co-ordination (management 2012/2014)
Co-ordinator: Prof. Dr. Jalcione Pereira de Almeida
Contact: jal@ufrgs.br
Deputy co-ordinator: Prof. Dr. Gabriela Coelho-de-Souza
Contact: gabrielacoelhodesouza@gmail.com
Permanent teachers
Carlos Guilherme Adalberto Mielitz Netto: BSc Agronomy, MSc Rural Economics (UFRGS – Brazil), PhD Economic Sciences (UNICAMP – Brazil) and Post-Doctoral degree (University of Paris X, Nanterre – France).
Research areas: Economic policy for agriculture, analysis of agro-industrial chains, beef cattle farming, productivity, technology and regionalisation.
Subjects taught: DER323: Public Policies for Agriculture and the Brazilian Agrarian Issue (elective – 3 credits); DER326: Brazilian Integration in Contemporary Capitalism (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: mielitz@ufrgs.br
Eduardo Ernesto Filippi: BSc Economics, MSc Rural Economics (UFRGS – Brazil), PhD Political Economics (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – France).
Research areas: Ecological economy, local productive systems, territorial dynamics, Brazilian economy, (rural) development and solidarity economy, public policies for disadvantaged areas, territorial policies.
Subjects taught: DER324: Socio-Economic Development, Territory and Environment (elective – 3 credits); DER400: Development: Theories, Topics and Processes (mandatory – 6 credits).
Contact: edu_292000@yahoo.com.br
Fábio Kessler Dal Soglio: BSc Agronomy, MSc Plant Science (UFRGS – Brazil) and PhD Phytopathology (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign –EUA), specialises in Plant Breeding (Wageningen University – The Netherlands), Post-Doctoral degree at Wageningen University and Research – The Netherlands.
Research areas: Agroecology, biological monitoring, rural development.
Subjects taught: DER318: Agriculture and Sustainability (elective – 3 credits)
Contact: fabiods@ufrgs.br
Gabriela Peixoto Coelho de Souza: BSc Biology, MSc and PhD Botany, emphasis Ethnobotany (UFRGS – Brazil).
Research areas: Ethnobotany, ethnobiology, sustainable biodiversity management, traditional populations and biological conservation, extractivist activities, ecology of populations and forest communities, ethnoconservation, Atlantic forest, environmental legislation and conservation units.
Subjects taught: Particular Topics.
Contact: gabrielacoellhodesouza@yahoo.com.br
Ivaldo Gehlen: BSc Sociology, specialises in Adult Learning and Integral Rural Development (Regional Centre for Adult Learning – Mexico), MSc Sociology (UFRGS – Brazil), PhD Sociology (University of Paris X, Nanterre – France).
Research areas: Social movements and agrarian reform in southern Brazil, rural settlements, inequality and social differences, social training of rural areas, agro-industry, assessment of social realities in rural areas.
Subjects taught: DER311: Planning and Management of Projects for Rural Development (elective – 3 credits); DER316: Social Inequality and Differences in Rural Areas (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: ivaldo@ufrgs.br
Jalcione Pereira de Almeida: BSc Agronomy and Sociology, MSc Rural Sociology (UFRGS – Brazil), PhD Sociology (University of Paris X – France) and Post-Doctoral degree Environment and Development (University of Paris VII – France).
Research areas: Socio-technical mediation, environmental conflicts, farmer strategies, society – nature relationship, interdisciplinarity.
Subjects taught: DER317: Technoscience, Nature and Development (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: jal@ufrgs.br
João Armando Dessimon Machado: Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, MSc Rural Economics (UFRGS – Brazil) and PhD Agri-Food Economics (University of Córdoba – Spain).
Research areas: Decision making, participation and rural development, information systems, production systems.
Subjects taught: DER320: Decision-Making Process and Management of Agricultural Production Units (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: joao.dessimon@ufrgs.br
José Carlos Gomes dos Anjos: BSc Social Sciences, MSc and PhD Social Anthropology (UFRGS – Brazil) and Post-Doctoral degree (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris – France).
Research areas: Social movements, cultural mediation, policies in rural areas, ethnic and national intellectual identities, race inequality.
Subjects taught: DER328: Political and Cultural Mediation in Rural Areas (elective – 3 credits)
Contact: jcdosanjos@gmail.com
Leonardo Xavier da Silva: BSc Economics, MSc and PhD Economics (UFRGS – Brazil).
Research areas: Analysis of agro-industrial chains, economic policy and agriculture, analysis of institutions, smoke, smallholder-farmer production, transaction-cost economics, agro-industrial complex.
Contact: leonardo.xavier@ufrgs.br
Lovois de Andrade Miguel: BSc Agronomy, MSc Social and Economic Sciences (Institut National Agronomique Paris Grignon – France) and PhD Comparative Agriculture and Agricultural Development (Institut National Agronomique Paris Grignon – France).
Research areas: Local development, production system assessment, family farming, agrarian systems, production systems and sustainable rural development.
Subjects taught: DER310: Evolution and Differentiation of Agrarian Systems (elective – 3 credits);
DER311: Planning and Management of Projects for Rural Development (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: lovois@ufrgs.br
Marcelino de Souza: BSc Agronomy, MSc Rural Extension (UFSM – Brazil) and PhD Agricultural Engineering (UNICAMP – Brazil).
Research areas: Rural tourism, small agro-industry, sustainable development, multifunctionality and public policies.
Subjects taught: DER323: Public Policies for Agriculture and the Brazilian Agrarian Issue (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: marcelino.souza@uol.com.br
Marcelo Kunrath Silva: BA History, MSc and PhD Sociology (UFRGS – Brazil) and Post-Doctoral degree (Brown University – EUA).
Research areas: Social movements, theory of democracy, citizenship, conflict, social participation, participatory budget, public policy councils, associative movements and social movements.
Subjects taught: DER327: Associative Configurations, Social Participation and Public Policies in Brazil (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: mksilva@ufrgs.br
Paulo Dabdab Waquil: BSc Agronomy, MSc Rural Economics (UFRGS – Brazil) and PhD Agricultural Economics (University de Wisconsin - EUA).
Research areas: rural development, agricultural policy, regional integration, agro-industrial chains and agricultural marketing, economic policy for agriculture.
Subjects taught: DER300: Quantitative Methods (elective – 3 credits); DER321: Structure and Dynamics of Agro-Industrial Systems (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: waquil@ufrgs.br
Roberto Verdum: BSc Geography, MSc and PhD Geography and Planning (University of Toulouse II Le Mirail – France).
Research areas: Physical geography, geomorphology, hydrogeography and geoecology, landscape, desertification and arenisation.
Subjects taught: DER312: Environmental Impact Assessment (elective – 3 credits)
Contact: verdum@ufrgs.br
Sergio Schneider: BSc Sociology, MSc (UNICAMP) and PhD Sociology (UFRGS/Brazil and University of Paris VIII), Post-Doctoral degree in Regional and Urban Planning (Cardiff University, Wales – England).
Research areas: Family farming, pluriactivity, labour market, public policy, school feeding and rural development.
Subjects taught: DER400: Development: Theories, Topics and Processes (mandatory – 6 credits); DER325: Family Farming and Peasantry: Theories, Processes and Actors (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: schneide@ufrgs.br
Collaborating Teachers
Egon Roque Fröhlich: BA Philosophy, MSc Rural Sociology, MSc Rural Sociology (UFRGS – Brazil) and PhD Mass Media (University of Wisconsin – Madison – EUA)
Research areas: Research methodology, family farming, case studies, media, farmer organisations.
Subjects taught: DER106: Theory and Practice of Scientific Research A (master’s mandatory – 3 credits) DER107: Theory and Practice of Scientific Research B (master’s mandatory – 3 credits)
Contact: egonfrohlich@terra.com.br
Fábio de Lima Beck: BA Education, MA Education (State University of Campinas – Brazil) and PhD Education (University of London – England).
Research areas: Curriculum, teaching and learning in higher education; education for Agrarian Sciences.
Subjects taught: DER401: Seminar of Multidisciplinary Research in Rural Development (PhD mandatory – 2 credits)
Contact: samelo@ufrgs.br
Karl Martin Monsma: BSc Sociology, MSc Sociology (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor – EUA), PhD Sociology (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor –EUA), Post-Doctoral degree Sociology (USP) and Post-Doctoral degree Social Anthropology (National Museum/UFRJ).
Research areas: Agrarian history, immigration and colonisation, race relations in the countryside, rural violence, race relations, ethnic identities, social theory and methods for historical sociology.
Subjects taught: DER301: Agrarian History of Rio Grande do Sul (elective – 2 credits)
Contact: karlmonsma@uol.com.br
Marta Julia Marques Lopes: BSc Nursing, MSc and PhD Sociology (University of Paris VII – France) and Post-Doctoral degree (Centre Régionel D'informations et de Prévention du Sida – France).
Research areas: Health and gender, collective health, epidemiology and society, social inequality and health, epistemological studies in collective health, external causes for morbimortality (violence and accidents), quality of life, work, health, health education in long-term damage.
Subjects taught: DER313: Qualitative Methodology (elective –3 credits).
Contact: marta@enf.ufrgs.br
Renata Menasche: BSc Agronomy, Master’s degree in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA/UFRRJ – Brazil), PhD Social Anthropology (PPGAS/UFRGS), Sandwich PhD internship (Laboratoire d´ Anthropologie Sociale da École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – France).
Research areas: food and culture, peasantry (social reproduction strategies, knowledge and practices ), gender and rural youth.
Subjects taught: DER319: Food, Culture and Peasantry (elective – 3 credits)
Contact: renata.menasche@pq.cnpq.br
Tatiana Engel Gerhardt: BSc Nursing and Anthropology, MSc Public Health in Developing Countries (University of Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie – France), MSc Social Sciences (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – France), PhD Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Bordeaux 2 Victor Ségalen – France).
Research areas: Collective health, anthropology of health, social inequality, health service use, integrality practices in health, practices and strategies to face health problems, therapeutic paths, food knowledge and food practices.
Subjects taught: DER313: Qualitative Methodology (elective – 3 credits); DER322: Interdisciplinary Workshop of Research (elective – 3 credits).
Contact: tatiana.gerhardt@ufrgs.br
6.1. Documents required for registration
(a) Registration Form: available for on-line registration at the Programme’s webpage (www.ufrgs.br/pgdr)
(b) Curriculum vitae, preferably in the Lattes model and updated in CNPq database available at www.cnpq.br – Lattes Platform;
(c) Copy of Diploma: Degree for the Master’s course (or document attesting that the student will conclude degree) Master’s degree (or document attesting that the student will conclude master’s degree);
(d) Academic Transcript (copy);
Note: If obtained in electronic format, the transcript must bear the official stamp of the Institution that issued it.
(e) Copy of Identity Card (Brazilian students) or certified copy of Passport (foreign students);
(f) One 3x4 photo;
(g) Research plan (for master’s candidates) with a maximum of 10 pages, in which the following points are to be covered: topic; objectives, justification and motivation for conducting the research; primary theoretical and methodological grounding; and bibliography.
(h) Pre-research project (for PhD candidates) with a maximum of 20 pages, in which the following points are to be covered: topic; brief discussion of the problem; objectives; justification and motivation for conducting the research; primary theoretical and methodological grounding; and bibliography.
Candidates must propose a potential supervisor for their Master’s or PhD project to be chosen from among the PGDR teaching board. The indication of a possible supervisor does not imply any kind of help or assistance to candidates in the development of their Research Projects.
(i) Registration Fee: see Selection Announcement (Edital de Seleção).
6.2. Etapas del proceso selectivo
Selection in person is available for both Brazilian and foreign students. Selection takes place at PGDR and includes the following stages:
- Stage 1 (eliminatory): Analysis of CV, academic transcript and research plan/pre-research project.
- Stage 2 (eliminatory): Written test on a topic related to Rural Development, from the indicated bibliography. Translation of a text (the candidate may choose between French or English).
- Stage 3 (qualifying and eliminatory): Interview with committee of PGDR teachers in which candidates selected in Stage 2 will be individually asked to discuss their Research Plans/Projects and their academic and/or professional history.
Note: PhD foreign candidates or Brazilian candidates residing in the North, Northeast and Centre-East regions (with the exception of Mato Grosso do Sul State) may choose the distance selection process provided they give up the scholarship provided by PGDR. In order to take part in the distance selection, candidates must send the pre-project, academic transcript and CV to PGDR, through the post, which will then be analysed by the Selection Committee. This analysis is eliminatory for candidates that choose distance selection. Foreign candidates who apply for scholarships to international funding agencies must follow the respective calendar and send the corresponding documents in advance to the PGDR Co-ordination for evaluation and issue of a letter of acceptance.
7. Additional information
7.1. Language proficiency exam
CELPE-BRAS (Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners)
This certificate is required by MEC and CAPES for foreign students and it must be taken during the course. For more information, see www.mec.gov.br/sesu/celpe
7.2. Foreign Language Proficiency
Foreign language proficiency is not required for registration and participation in the selection process. Nevertheless, students are required to take a foreign language proficiency test in one foreign language for obtaining the Master title and in two foreign languages for obtaining the Doctoral title. Proficiency tests in one foreign language can be taken during the post-graduate course in UFRGS or in institutions recognised by the University.
PGDR is provided with a quota of scholarships from the Brazilian funding agencies (CAPES and CNPq) for Master’s and PhD degrees. Nevertheless, admission to the course does not imply the award of a scholarship. Students eligible are awarded a scholarship based on their classification in the selection process.
The Brazilian academic calendar incorporates two semesters: semester one running from March to July and semester two running from August to December. The months of July, January and February constitute a recess for internal activities of the University. PGDR academic year normally starts on the first or second week of March.
PGDR is a public institution connected to UFRGS. In Brazil, undergraduate and graduate education is free of cost in public universities and there is no difference between Brazilian and foreign students, once admitted.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Econômicas - IEPE
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Rural - PGDR
Av. João Pessoa, 31 - CEP 90040-000 - Porto Alegre - RS – Brazil
Phone: +55 (51) 3308-3281
Email: pgdr@ufrgs.br Website: http://www.ufrgs.br/pgdr/