Programa de aquisição de alimentos na agricultura familiar : evolução no Brasil e avaliação de impacto em Dormentes-PE

Abstract

In Brazil, family farming is approximately 84.4% (IBGE 2006) the total number of prop-erties considering an absolute value of approximately 4.3 agricultural establishments. In the face of such statements can be considered that the family farmer develops an activity of great importance to the domestic food supply. This proposes an analysis of the Food Acquisition Program with regard to a captive market of family farming as what impact the program had on the Family Farming in the City of Dormentes- PE. As a methodological proposal for program analysis we used the public policy analysis model proposed by Thomas Dye, called the incremental model in which is based on the idea that the current public policies serve as the basis for new public policies and to evaluate the impact of the Food Acquisition Program at the local level was adapted the methodology proposed by Oliveira (2002) considering the re-arranging experienced by beneficiaries in the social, political and economic. A survey of the Food Acquisition Program shown a possible contribution to the understanding of family farming as a social category in Brazil. As a result it was possible to analyze the Food Acquisition Program is an important tool for the marketing of products from family farms providing significant changes in social, political and economic but also important to the issue of food safety benefit, but can be considered still ignorant as to change the agrarian structure that sets the rural areas, keeping family farmers in a position of social vulnerability and market.