Desafios da implantação de políticas públicas: o PRONAF em Tocantins-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Eliana de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4132
• topic: Agricultura familiar; Pronaf; Políticas públicas; Familiar agriculture; PRONAF; Public policies; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

Family farming has social and economic importance to Brazil. This importance had been institucionalized by the Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF), a program of public policy created in 1996 to finance the production in agricultural establishments, infrastructure and municipal services, to enable and professionalization of family farmers and enable extension services to this segment of Brazilian agriculture. The empirical focus of this work took into consideration family farmers in the municipality of Tocantins-MG, whose trajectories along the Pronaf are representative of the incidence of the program. Our results show that the program is an important mechanism to support family farming, recognized by public administrators and local farmers themselves. However, the data indicate that there are still some problems that make it difficult for farmers less capitalized to access credit. Among these, we highlight the lack of integration of social actors who operate it locally; deficiencies in the disclosure program in the city studied, especially with regard to its rules and contract conditions; the insecurity of farmers to take on debts by the Banco do Brasil, financial manager of the program; the exaggeration of this bank, in your local branch, with warranty requirements, hindering the operations of renovation and expansion of the number of contracts; and the selective nature of the program created by the confluence of the factors listed above. This results a selective access to credit, generation benefit to land owners who are more capitalized. At the same time we highlight the importance of Pronaf, we believe, basedon the results of the study undertaken, the participation andaccess to credit resources PRONAF has not met the real demands of family farmers in Tocantins-MG. Agreeing with other authors we show that the program need adjustments, including those related to the distribution of resources in order to introduce the family farmers on potential markets, collectively and with fewer requirements and guarantees. In general, we believe that the operation of the program occurs through actions and are disjointed and fail to produce effective changes in the socioeconomic situation of the target population, making the program does not achieve its full objectives.