Dissertação
Cultivando alimentos e significados: um estudo de caso da reconexão entre produtores e consumidores no PAA
Fecha
2014-08-28Registro en:
CAPISTRANO, Milena de Oliveira Werneck de. FOOD AND FARMING MEANINGS: A CASE STUDY OF RECONNECTION BETWEEN PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS IN PAA. 2014. 106 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Agronomia) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, 2014.
Autor
Capistrano, Milena de Oliveira Werneck de
Institución
Resumen
The thesis addresses the reconnection between producers and consumers of agroecological food
by means of the Food Acquisition Program for Family Farming (PAA) in Paraná. The
operational dynamic of the Food Bank of Urban Rural Formation Center Irmã Araújo
(CEFURIA) was investigated. This center assists the population affected by food and nutrition
insecurity and social vulnerability in Curitiba and its metropolitan area. In this respect,
agroecological farming families settled in the municipality of Lapa-PR implement a project
mode of Simultaneous Donation of PAA. This project aims to analyze reconnect producers and
consumers in the institutionalization process of this policy as a short circle commercialization
of agroecological products, as well as to measure the public intervention in meeting the basic
needs of individuals. It is assumed that the construction of social relationships is linked to the
inherent characteristics of social agents that operate as individuals assisted by the program, and
that are able to influence and 'create' reconnection factors. Furthermore, it is assumed that such
social relationships are affected by normative and regulative operational dynamics that are
created at a local scope by social agents that implement the Program. Finally, it is presumed
that social relationships created by social agents can influence the creation and modification of
shared meanings and values, as well as the behaviors and attitudes in promoting the feeling of
reconnection between producers and consumers of agroecological food. This debate aims to
incite a cognitive approach focusing on individual and organizational social action in the
institutionalization process of a public policy that has been analyzed in recent studies due to its
capability to reconfigure production, distribution and food consumption models, facing
disconnections of the current food system. Thus, a qualitative methodology was applied.
Participative observations and semi-structured interviews with agents located in different points
of the Food Bank of CEFURIA, from production to consumption were conducted. The results
were as expected. The trajectories and views of individuals and organizations involved in the
Program implementation in Curitiba and in the settlement of Lapa, as well as the organizational
configuration and dynamic operational created by them to execute the Program through the
Food Bank of CEFURIA may influence social relationships and creation, modification and
sharing of institutional elements along the food circle. These relations may influence attitudes
and behaviors of the agents in order to promote reconnection between producers and consumers
of food.