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Law No. 14.373 establishing the Rural Youth Scholarship Programme and amending Law No. 8.511 authorizing the creation of the State Fund to Support the Development of Small Rural Establishments.

Country/Territory
Brazil
Territorial subdivision
Rio Grande do Sul
Document type
Legislation
Date
2013
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development
Keyword
Special fund Research Farming Financial agricultural measures Poverty Agricultural development Youth Smallholders/peasants Family farming Indigenous peoples
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Law, consisting of 16 articles, establishes the Rural Youth Scholarship Programme "Programa Bolsa Juventude Rural" and amends Law No. 8.511 authorizing the creation of the State Fund to Support the Development of Small Rural Establishments. The general objectives of this Programme are: to give access and permanence of young people in high school; to contribute to the reduction of the levels of poverty and social exclusion of youth; to give young people their emancipation from a life project built within the school; and to provide access to and permanence in secondary education and the implementation of sustainable productive projects, encouraging the permanence of the educator in the rural area from the creation Of conditions for the choice of the countryside as place to live and agriculture as a profession. The specific objectives of the Rural Youth Scholarship Programme are: to ensure financial support for young students from urban and rural schools to remain, return or enter to secondary and/or vocational education; to encourage, as a counterpart to the receipt of this Programme, the implementation of sustainable productive projects, stimulating the permanence of the student in rural areas; to offer pedagogical and technical support to young people, during the receipt of the Exchange, in counterpart activities; and to expand and stimulate differentiated proposals of education with curricula that contemplate family farming.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
www.normasbrasil.com.br

References - Legislation

Amends

Law No. 8.511 creating the State Fund for Support to the Development of Small Rural Settlements.

Legislation | Brazil | 1988 (2013)

Keyword: Special fund, Research, Farming, Financial agricultural measures, Poverty, Agricultural development, Youth, Smallholders/peasants, Indigenous peoples

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Implemented by

Decree No. 53.412 establishing the value of the Rural Youth Scholarship for the budget year 2017.

Legislation | Brazil | 2017

Keyword: Financial agricultural measures, Poverty, Agricultural development, Youth, Smallholders/peasants, Family farming, Farming

Source: FAO, FAOLEX