The family farming and the question of sustainability: issues for debate

The article raises some questions for the debate on sustainable development issues in Brazilian agriculture, focusing on family farming, highlighting the conditions, limits and possibilities of this exercise full sustainability. Defends the model of small family farms, as opposed to agribusiness, as the ideal to practice sustainability in the field. Although there is agreement with this thesis, we try to draw attention to the complexity of this subject is wrapped under the capitalist system, since even in small farms found problems of environmental degradation.