Institutional Market and Territorial Policies: the experience of family farmers in the community of Matinha in the rural area of São Luís / MA

Abstract

This article analyzes the experience of family farmers in Matinha, in the rural area of São Luís (MA), from the establishment of institutional markets, as recognized in the production process, the transformations in the production units to the resumption and expansion of traditional crops and productive diversification, in order to verify what are the socioeconomic implications of the PAA in the relations of commercialization of the food produced by the farmers, through its operationalization managed under the articulation at the federal, state and municipal level. To achieve this goal, in the years 2017 and 2018, interviews were conducted with 12 farmers, with the coordinators of the PAA at the municipal and state level and the coordinator of the program's logistics. The results and conclusion show that the insertion of Matinha's farmers in the institutional market represented significant changes, on the one hand, in their various forms of organization of production and, consequently, in the disposal of food, and on the other hand, access to the program. it also expresses some obstacles for these farmers, due to bureaucratic requirements and contingency of financial resources, since 2017, which has been accentuated in the current context of the Bolsonaro government.