Plateforme de connaissances sur l'agriculture familiale

The strengthening of family agriculture through the food acquisition program - PAA

the case of São Pedro do Butia Municipality - Rio Grande do Sul

The present work deals with the study of a relatively recent public policy which has been a constant object of change, related to food commercialization from family agriculture, as well as the food supply for populations in food insecurity situation. We identify that the Food Purchase Program (PAA in Portuguese)) has its history marked by the movement to combat hunger and constitutes a different public policy for it serves to a specific public, and establishes a relationship between production and consumption of food. The empirical field was developed in the Butiá Agricultural Cooperative Inc. (Cooperbutiá), municipality of São Pedro do Butiá, in the region of Rio Grande do Sul State called Missões. The interviews were conducted with beneficiary farmers with the PAA, non-beneficiaries, local entities and the Cooperbutiá. The Cooperbutiá's experience is characterized by the fact of its food production serves, in most of the cases, a beneficiary public located in another municipality, Santo Angelo. With this, we tried to identify how the local/regional dynamic happened between the Cooperbutiá and the beneficiary consumers. We also studied the views on the PAA and the developments caused both in local institutions and in beneficiary farmers. Although farmers demonstrate a relative dissatisfaction in relation to prices, the same deal with the guaranteed purchase as an essential element, which allows them to organize themselves for future investments in their productive activities. The PAA has enabled the maintenance of food production to self-consumption and the purchase assurance has reflected positively among beneficiary farmers. The program is considered a key factor in generating incomes, although in most of the families it’s not characterized as the main source. However, for the interviewed people, it’s considered relevant, in local terms and to the maintenance of family group. Another observed aspect refers to the efforts obtained around the legalization or suitability of the processed foods production meant for PAA which, through the legalization process, organic food production and school meals are pointed out by the interviewed people as potential in terms of future possibilities in relation to the maintenance of local food sales, in case of the program ending. Considering the identified elements about the self-consumption production and the maintenance of the family farming as food-producer, as well as the established relations in local/regional terms, it´s possible to visualize an institutional arrangement that allows establishing new markets beyond the local boundaries. With the recent changes about the PAA, like the Law 11.947, from June 2009, despite incipient, they allow us seeing an important institutional market in terms of strengthening of family farming and of the representative institutions, in particular those family agriculture cooperatives, beyond the local marketing, and inserted in the  short chains of commercialization.

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Éditeur: Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul
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Auteur: Otávio Diel Deves
Autres autheurs: Eduardo Ernesto Filippi
Organisation: Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul
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Année: 2009
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Pays: Brazil
Couverture géographique: Amérique latine et les Caraïbes
Type: Ouvrage
Langue: Portuguese
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