TY - JOUR AU - Santos, Luana Ferreira dos AU - Ferreira, Marco Aurélio Marques AU - Campos, Ana Paula Teixeira de PY - 2018/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Rural development and family agriculture in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the light of multivariate data analysis JF - Interações (Campo Grande) JA - Inter VL - 19 IS - 4 SE - Artigos DO - 10.20435/inter.v19i4.1817 UR - https://interacoes.ucdb.br/interacoes/article/view/1817 SP - 827-843 AB - This paper analyze the rural development in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and verify if family farming is a key factor in  explaining it. The factor analysis reinforce the importance of the six aspects that influence rural development. The Rural Development Index show that most of the municipalities falls within the category of medium rural development followed by the categories high and low development. The multinomial logit model showed of 45.6% of municipalities, family farming is able to predict the level of rural development. ER -