Production of Commodities in Family Farms: food insecurity and the new challenges to PRONAF

Authors

  • Angelita Bazotti Instituto Parananense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social - IPARDES
  • Luzia Bucco Coelho

Keywords:

PRONAF. Food insecurity. Family farming. Commodities.

Abstract

Food and nutrition insecurity, famine and public policies unable to fully tackle the structures underlying such social asymmetries are political and economic issues that reflect social inequity and poverty in Brazil. However promoting the production of global commodities as well, initiatives especially like the Brazilian national program for the strengthening of family farming (Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar - PRONAF) have been taken in order to change that scenario. Based on both the distribution of PRONAF funding contracts by product and the increased production of commodities over basic foods, we analyze changes observed in the country’s family farming production. The data supporting our study was published by the Brazilian Central Bank between 1995 and 2015. Our main argument is that commoditization does not necessarily threatens the food security of family farmers. Nevertheless, as demonstrated here, further commoditization of such activities can be detrimental to the food security of the whole society, even if local production systems are reinforced by a diversified PRONAF funding.

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Author Biographies

Angelita Bazotti, Instituto Parananense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social - IPARDES

Doutora em Desenvolvimento Rural pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Mestre em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Atualmente é pesquisadora do Núcleo de Monitoramento e Avaliação de Políticas Públicas no Instituto Paranaense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (IPARDES) com atuação no projeto de monitoramento e avaliação do Projeto Multissetorial do Paraná.

Luzia Bucco Coelho

Administradora. Mestre em Políticas Públicas pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná,Brasil. Doutora em Desenvolvimento Rural na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), PortoAlegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Pesquisadora do Grupo Agricultura e Sistemas Agroalimentares da UFPR.

Published

2018-01-05

How to Cite

Bazotti, A., & Bucco Coelho, L. (2018). Production of Commodities in Family Farms: food insecurity and the new challenges to PRONAF. Revista Paranaense De Desenvolvimento - RPD, 38(133), 113–129. Retrieved from https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/948

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Section

Dossiê: Estratégias para uma agenda de segurança alimentar e nutricional. Org. Prof. Dr. Nilson de Paula