Food acquisition program in MS: food sovereignty, crisis and prospects for overcoming the crisis

Authors

  • Carlos Alberto Heling
  • Euclides Reuter de Oliveira
  • Rosimeire Aparecida de Almeida
  • Andrea Maria de Araújo Gabriel
  • Angélica Margarete Magalhães
  • Alberto Giovani de Souza
  • Thaís Lemos Pereira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30612/re-ufgd.v4i7.7252

Keywords:

Public policies , Family farming , Commercialization , Food sovereignty

Abstract

The Food Acquisition Program (PAA), implemented by the Federal Government in 2003, is developed with interministerial resources from the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS) and the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), and operated by the National Supply Company (CONAB). Its guidelines seek to ensure the maintenance of strategic regulatory stocks in order to prevent shortages in the country. However, its main objective is to guarantee access to food in the quantities necessary for populations in situations of food and nutritional insecurity through the purchase of family farming production and simultaneous donation. Thus, the PAA Purchase with Simultaneous Donation (PAA/CDS) came to meet the demands of social movements in the field of a public marketing policy that would guarantee the socioeconomic strengthening of family farming, with a view to food sovereignty. Therefore, the objective of this research is to highlight the importance of the PAA for Family Farming and to produce data that can demonstrate that the program has been suffering from budgetary contingency and a reduction in the scope of the program's original objectives under the current management of the Federal Government and, consequently, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS). Therefore, it was necessary to investigate the operational performance of the PAA between 2012 and 2017, particularly regarding the program's annual budget, advances, limits, and challenges. Finally, it is concluded that the PAA/CDS has been successful in gradually removing the obstacle to the commercialization of family farming products. However, the scope of the program currently has a serious budgetary limitation for expanding its actions in MS.

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Published

2017-07-18

How to Cite

Heling, C. A., Oliveira, E. R. de, Almeida, R. A. de, Gabriel, A. M. de A., Magalhães, A. M., Souza, A. G. de, & Pereira, T. L. (2017). Food acquisition program in MS: food sovereignty, crisis and prospects for overcoming the crisis. RealizAção, 4(7), 51–78. https://doi.org/10.30612/re-ufgd.v4i7.7252

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