The food acquisition program - PAA as reproduction strategy of socio-economic in the micro geographic region of chapecó - SC

Author(s)

Carla Hentz

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Presidente Prudente. 2016-10-04.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente
• Defense date: 2016-09-05
• Advisor: Rosangela Aparecida de Medeiros Hespanhol

Abstract

The importance assumed by family farmers in the last decades of the twentieth century is limited, at least from the rhetorical point of view, to the new approach incorporated to public policies from the 1990s, when on seeks to overcome the purely sectoral and production bias of the public policies for rural areas. Seeking to mitigate the profound impact caused by the agricultural modernization process, a new territorial concept of development is put in the context of public policies with the intent of developing rural development strategies to ensure better living conditions in the field, especially regardingthe situation of small family farmers who are confined to the process of food production. Inserted into this context of change, the Food Acquisition Program - PAA allied elements of agricultural policy and food security policy, enabling the link between production, marketing and consumption, contributing to tackling hunger and poverty in Brazil and at the same time, strengthening family farming. In the West of Santa Catarina, among the consequences of the modernizing project is the strengthening of the relationship between agriculture and industry. Such changes if strong enough, allow the implementation of a new production process called "system of integration", which is extremely selective and exclusionary, leaving in the margin of the production process a significant portion of small family farmers. Thus, this work aims to delimit the theoretical reflections on the state's role in public policies for rural development, taking the PAA as a case study in the cities of Cunha Porã and Saltinho, located at the micro geographic region of Chapecó. Therefore, it seeks to analyze the marketing opportunities offered by the introduction of this public policy, and to what extentit has fostered social and economic alternatives for small farmers to insert autonomously in the markets. The methodology was focused on bibliographic analysis about the issues, interviews and field work with questionnaire. From the results, it can be concluded although the PAA is acommendable public policy, acting alone becomes fragile and insufficient. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/02873-4 - The Program of Acquisition of Foods (PAA) as estrategy of socioeconomic reproduction in the micro-region of Chapecó–SC
• Grantee: Carla Hentz
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master