摘要：The article refers to the socio-technical dynamics in the gaucho family livestock highlighting the importance of rural development experiences in family ranchers communities in Rio Grande do Sul. He also stresses the need for further development of research and encouragement of public policies that value the transition from agriculture towards the conservation and sustainable use of threatened countryside in the State. The grain crops, forestry and inadequate management of the fields are among the main causes of degradation, which have already removed more than half of the original area of these native resources, the multifunctionality goes far beyond the traditional and known production of animal protein. For better understanding of the management of urgent transitional work process presents the Multilevel Perspective approach while potentially able to investigate the factors that explain how multiple local and regional actors articulate original trajectories and repertoires of rural development, bringing important contributions to the formulation of policies. This study, which is based on literature review, attributes and identifies key role to family ranchers and their cattle, to the extent that this social group is involved with creative co-production processes, adapted and contextualized locally.
