Agronegócio Internacional e Multidimensionalidade da Percepção de Valor dos Pequenos Produtores Agrícolas em Xinavane, Moçambique: Uma Análise Factorial Confirmatória

Abstract

The evaluation of the impact of agribusiness industries in small rural communities of development countries is a crucial tool for public governance strategies, when the well being of populations is a priority of states. The main objective of this paper is to investigate how small farmers from Magude and Manhiça, Mozambique, evaluate the multidimensional value of their relationships with one enterprise, Açucareira de Xinavane (ADX), which produces and processes, sugar cane, adopting the multidimensional scale of value (PERVAL scale of value), or the tetra-factorial configuration of value (emotional, social, monetary and functional) and Confirmatory Factorial Analysis (CFA) statistical strategy. Results showed that the multidimensional instrument has good psychometric proprieties of reliability and validity.