Tese
O programa de alimentação escolar brasileiro e a narrativa alternativa dos alimentos: convergências e desafios
Fecha
2015-12-16Autor
Balem, Tatiana Aparecida
Institución
Resumen
This thesis aim to understand the PNAE (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar)
implementation process in Santiago-RS from 2009, identifying the strategies and the process
triggered by the action of local social actors, as well as the differential elements or limitations
of case design and the potential for redesign of development from school feeding. For this, the
strategies by local stakeholders were evaluated. The stakeholders are categorized here as
articulators of public policy, family farmers and school community directly involved with the
PNAE. Strategies locally built for the operationalization of public policy and able to achieve a
realization of this in all aspects recommended may lead to the construction of alternative,
sustainable, localized and inclusive agri-food systems and healthy eating. The survey
eminently qualitative was developed through exploratory and explanatory research, and the
data collection instruments, observation, interviews and document analysis. With the study it
is recognised that the social actors involved in the implementation of the PNAE, in a
personification process of the public policy, have established a public space and a political
project around the school food, which creates opportunities for discussion and construction of
the Food Alternative Narrative. The personification enables the appropriation of the meanings
of public policy by site, endogenous strategies are built on a social dialogue process and
establishment of dialogue and action spaces. In this context, the meaning of school meals was
built and the Family Agriculture resignified began to be considered as protagonist of the
municipality development. However, it became clear in the study that the family farmers need
technical consulting and support to enter this context of transformation. Family farming was
heavily impacted by agriculture modernization process, for this is necessary to build
knowledge capable of re-embedding, re-connecting and re-twining the productive systems.
The study showed that the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER) has an
important role in re-discussion of the agri-food system through school feeding. However the
performance of ATER has been directed to the organization of family farmers and market's
construction. The work of redrawing of agro-ecosystems, today the main difficulty
experienced by family farmers of Santiago, hasn't been worked by ATER. The public space
and political project built in Santiago has generated a demand by family farmers’ products, in
addition to the public procurement by PNAE. And the family farmers are with dificulty to
meet this local market under construction. Finally, is possible affirm that the PNAE has the
potential to be an initial anchor for the development of localized agrifood systems, but the
personification process of the public political is a condition. Another challenge is the
technical assistence and rural extension services appropriated for family farmers and for
development to Food Alternative Narrative.