Public policies and institutional changes: the trajectories of family farmers in processing food in Rio Grande do Sul – Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Agne, Chaiane Leal
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Waquil, Paulo Dabdab
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/12164
• topic: Instituições. Agricultura Familiar. Políticas Públicas. Atividades de Processamento de Alimentos.; Institutions. Family farmers. Public Policies. Processed food Activities.; Instituciones. Agricultura Familiar. Políticas Públicas. Actividades de Procesamiento de Alimentos.

From the 1990s, food processing activities have changed, stimulated by the political-governmental context, which induced new forms of production and commercialization within the scope of Brazilian agriculture. Among these changes, several public policies were developed with the purpose of regulating the production, processing and food markets of family farming. Considering this context, this article aims to discuss what the role of public policies are in the changes of behavior and interpretation from family farmers that are processing food. The research was developed in 4 different regions in state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, according to Regional Development Councils (Coredes): Corede Jacuí Centro, Corede Sul, Corede Vale do Rio dos Sinos and Corede Hortênsias. Interviews have been conducted with 64 families, which process food in the rural area, with the assistance of a semi-structured form (with qualitative and quantitative questions), field diaries and observations. In the data analysis, it was used qualitative (technique called tenor analyzis) and quantitative (likert scale). A typology has been constructed to describe the trajectories of families in the processing food activities, which represents how 4 different groups have started processing food and how they have changed the techniques over time. The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) has been influencing transformations in the family habits, which has been identified by changes in the production and selling of food. Moreover, these changes might be explained by the management process of this program, which involves new collective actions in the context of processing food activities.