Public procurement as strategy to foster organic transition: insights from the Brazilian experience

Autor(es)

Borsatto, Ricardo Serra ^[1] ; Altieri, Miguel A. ^[2] ; Duval, Henrique Carmona ^[1] ; Perez-Cassarino, Julian ^[3]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Fed Univ Sao Carlos UFSCar, Ctr Nat Sci, BR-18245970 Buri - Brazil

^[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, ESPM, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA

^[3] Univ Fed Fronteira Sul UFFS, Campus Laranjeiras do Sul, BR-85301000 Laranjeiras Do Sul - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS; v. 35, n. 6, p. 688-696, DEC 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Initiatives to foster a transition toward organic agriculture have drawn policy-makers' interest worldwide. However, research studies evaluating the effectiveness of policies intended to promote `scaling-out' organic production systems to more farms and larger production areas are still rare. To better understand the role that public procurement and price incentive policies have in scaling-out organic transitions, we assessed the effects of the Brazilian Food Acquisition Program (PAA) in a group of municipalities. PAA offers both markets for family farmers and price incentives for certified organic products. However, our findings suggest that farmers who establish organic production systems and become certified also gain access to other markets; ones that they find more attractive than those created by the PAA. Thus, we find that the PAA offers insufficient incentives for adopting organic practices among peasant and family farmers and supports the argument that scaling-out organic production is a multilevel process that depends on different, but interrelated drivers. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 17/04577-1 - O papel das políticas públicas na promoção de sistemas agroalimentares localizados e sustentáveis: limites e potenciais
• Beneficiário: Ricardo Serra Borsatto
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Pesquisa