Family Farm, public policies and citizenship: connections built from the operation of the Program National School Feeding

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the process of enjoyment of prerogatives set forth in School Feeding National Program -PNAE by family farmers to program product suppliers, to discuss the PNAE the establishment of thresholds as an instrument of citizenship. The discussions presented are based on literature review on the participation of Family Farming in the PNAE and field research on the farmers access experience to supply product policy of school feeding in the municipalities of Brasil Novo, state of Pará, and Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. The study show that the supply of family farming products for school feeding does not necessarily express the appropriation of the right to sale by suppliers farmers. The participation of farmers in PNAE can not be considered only in the context of income, since the acquisition of products is not only related to the market. In this sense, social recognition the same such as food producers, ownership of the conquered right and changes in opportunities are also important elements of structures. Despite the inconsistencies that perhaps appear in the process of buying and selling of Family Agriculture through government programs, there were changes in the socio-political organization and productive actors, pointing out that the implementation of PNAE presents to family farmers new market opportunities, of ways of doing agriculture, social organization and to be a citizen.