Políticas de aquisição de alimentos na região centro-ocidental paranaense

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the public policies of food acquisition directed to the family agriculture, they are focused on two kinds of government programs, such as: Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) and Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) this last one is created for schools. The research was realized on the central-western in the state of Paraná, aiming to analyze the contribution of these policies for the development of small farmers, their organizations, charities and community. The specific objectives are to identify: i) some strategies which can help this family organizations to be stronger, and also help them to take the opportunity to access the institutional market and furthermore building an alternative and independent market; ii) the most frequently organizational form used to access the programs (PAA and PNAE), and the factors that influence its choice; iii) what are the reasons which make the organizations to act in a competitive and professional way; iv) The attitudes that the government could use to replicate the other organizations of family farmers. The data collection was made through a document research in the regional management agencies and also with an application of questionnaires to: farmers, representatives of social care entities; municipal and state schools, municipal and regional managers. The questionnaires were applied in Engenheiro Beltrão, Moreira Sales, Roncador and Terra Boa. The result of a survey conducted by the institute EMATER in 174 cities of Paraná was also used as a complement for our research. The results of the implementation of the government programs are positive, considering that the farmers increased their incomes, with it they guaranteed the trade of their products and the financial balance of marketing of production units; the families cooperatives were better structured, they increased in new sales and more market spaces were available. These programs contribute to supply a healthier food to the charities and reduce the cost for the acquisition of it, and for the local community, they promote better financial circulation and consequent an income creation. We can conclude that the programs contribute to the increase of healthy food supply to people that have a tendency to insecure food, they also contribute to the development of associative sympathetic forms settled on the principles, values and intrinsic characteristics of cooperatives, mainly those ones consisting of small farmers families. Thus, it is necessary to have professionalism on the management procedures of these organizations, reinforcing the need of some government interventions through the implementation of Public Policy Training Officers and Managers of Family Farming Organizations, types of programs which are prepared to help these cooperatives advising them continuously how it works.