The Program of Acquisition of Foods in Tocantins: the social conditions of accomplishment of markets with individual and collective practices of access

Abstract

The objective of that article is to present the results of a research accomplished in the State of Tocantins on the institutional market that involves the Program of Acquisition of Foods and the family agriculture. According to the marks of the economical sociology, the markets are social structures that. It needs countless social, cultural, politics and economical conditions for if they configure. Of that perspective, we established a general subject: how do the social and mercantile relationships happen in practice in configurations concrete, located and delimited of institutional market of the family agriculture? To answer that subject, we used the methodological strategy of analyzing, comparatively, two empiric configurations of that market: one in that the family farmers accessed the Program of Acquisition of Foods in collective our individual way. For that, we fell back upon documents, we accomplished interviews and we applied questionnaires. The work presents the institutional marks and some swingings of the execution of the Program of Acquisition of Foods in Brazil and in the State of Tocantins. It presents a description of the morphology of the two configurations and a description of several more specific modal processes of the most general process of to build and to stabilize the relationships between the family farmers and the other agents of the institutional market of the family agriculture.