A Articulação entre a política de merenda escolar e a agricultura familiar no município de Breves

Abstract

The present study discusses the articulation between the school meals policy and the family agriculture like inducing mechanism of the local development. Starting from the hypothesis that this proposal is inefficient in the municipality of Breves. Studies, therefore, they seek to understand the factors that determine that such policy, it does not establish a satisfactory way in the universe researched. Therefore, after the bibliographic review, data collection made from interviews e questionnaires sought to identify the position of the managing organs of the school feeding in this municipality about this problem, and also gathered the opinions of local family farmers. The results indicate a school feeding policy unarticulated of the structured purchase recommended by Law no.11.974/09, once that more of 90 % of the school meals from municipality is brought from other locations generating significant elevation of prices in relation to the local retail market. This way, this disarticulation discourages the socioeconomic development of the municipality. So, checks finally that buying products directly from family farmers – in the mode of structured demand – it`s viable and should be systematized, because it had enabled to the municipality of Breves the creation of job and income, food security improvement, reduction government spending and the generating taxes