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Abstract

The Food Acquisition Program created by Federal Law No. 10,696, of July 2, 2003, consists of the government buying food from peasant agriculture and distributing it to social assistance entities, which redistribute it to people in a situation of socioeconomic vulnerability. The present study aimed to assess the scope and contributions of the Food Acquisition Program for peasants in the state of Tocantins, with a time course between 2016 and 2021. For this purpose, four main methodological procedures were adopted: 1) bibliographical and documentary research; 2) data collection; 3) elaboration of cartographic representation; and 4) secondary data analysis. The results show that the PAA public policy incurs food and nutrition sovereignty and security, provides access to income, encourages associativism and/or cooperativism, in addition to inserting local and/or regional food cultures in the daily diet of the peasant producers themselves. , as well as the beneficiaries of the policies, through the receiving entities. Finally, the data show that the number of Tocantins municipalities accessing the program is negligible, as well as the number of peasants, that is, it is necessary to guarantee financial resources from the Union for the strengthening/maintenance of the PAA.