Políticas de aquisição de alimentos no corede Missões/RS e as possibilidades emancipatórias para a agricultura familiar

Abstract

The present work presents a line of research where the objective is to approach and familiarize itself with the issues that involve the emancipation of family agriculture through the public policies of food acquisition. The public policies for the acquisition of food were: Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), developed in the municipalities that make up the geographical and political region of the Regional Development Council (COREDE) The emancipatory approach was elaborated using the concepts of the thinkers Marx, Habermas, Freire and Santos, in which they emphasize work, freedom, education and dialogue as tools for a communicative and political action capable of emancipating the society. The research was developed using the method of exploratory research with a qualitative character, assuming a form of bibliographic research with investigation of the local reality, consisting of a case study. In analyzing public policies, the social farmer's social reproduction is fundamentally important in terms of economic, social and cultural aspects, as well as the need to overcome the challenges of bureaucracy, organization, planning and having an alternative not a dependency on these programs. The data collected in the region of COREDE Missões point to a potential of food acquisition programs in the institutional purchasing modalities, purchase with simultaneous donation and the PNAE. However, the emancipatory possibilities of food acquisition programs are restricted or inhibited from the set that surrounds public policies and family agriculture. Factual, punctual possibilities of intrinsic actions of individuals or groups are identified, but far from an expressive understanding of a whole of society. Thus, emancipation is conditional on integrated and structuring local actions that allow and facilitate a dialogue of reciprocity between local managers and family farmers.