Operacionalização do programa de aquisição de alimentos da agricultura familiar: limites e possibilidades

Abstract

This monograph deals with the Food Acquisition Program – PAA. The objective of the research was to discuss the functionalities in the operation of the PAA as a Family Agriculture program, in order to make its contribution to rural development known. Its specific objectives were to present the PAA as a public policy to guarantee food assistance to the rural population; identify the functions of the PAA as an action to stimulate small agricultural production and consumption and describe the main impacts of the PAA on the lives of family farmers in Tocantins. The research was carried out using the methodology of bibliographic research and documental research in wellknown publications and official and institutional documents that deal with debates and reflections on the subject studied. The results and discussions produced in the study show that the PAA is a rural development program, with a structural character, which aims to reduce poverty, supporting and stimulating the commercialization of products by small farmers and their organizations. They point out that this program, in addition to promoting food and nutritional security for socially vulnerable populations in rural areas, also values family farming and the social inclusion of small farmers, local development, through good production practices between small farmers and the State. . Furthermore, it was pointed out that the PAA is one of the programs that has contributed most to the strengthening of family farming, occupying the place of the main public policy for productive inclusion in the State of Tocantins. In the end, it is concluded that the structuring character of the PAA with the ability to produce social, economic and sustainable development for small farmers, makes this program an essential public policy for the achievement of citizenship of family farmers.