Food Procurement as an Instrument to Promote Local Food Systems: Exploring a Brazilian Experience

International Journal on Food System Dynamics Pub Date : 2021-05-18 DOI:10.18461/IJFSD.V12I2.83

R. Borsatto, André de Camargo Macedo, Leandro de Lima Santos, Wolney Felippe Antunes Junior, V. F. Souza-Esquerdo

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Abstract

Public food procurement is becoming more relevant among policymakers as a tool capable of supporting family farming, encouraging sustainable farming practices, and promoting rural development. Brazil is recognized as one of the first countries to develop national policies based on food demands from its public facilities to support family farming. Previous research has already demonstrated several positive impacts of programs based on public food procurement that establish new institutional markets aimed at the poorest family farmers. However, there is still a lack of research evaluating the impacts of public food procurements in creating local food systems that bring closer farmers and consumers. In this research, based on primary and secondary data, we sought to verify whether a food procurement-based program, the Brazilian Food Acquisition Program (PAA), contributes to the constitution and consolidation of local food systems in three Brazilian municipalities. On the one hand, our results suggest that PAA is an important instrument for the productive inclusion of family farming. On the other hand, PAA has contributed little to the establishment of more localized food systems, indicating that other drivers beyond the institutional market are critical to build and support local food systems.

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粮食采购作为促进地方粮食系统的工具:探索巴西的经验

公共食品采购作为一种能够支持家庭农业、鼓励可持续农业实践和促进农村发展的工具，在决策者中变得越来越重要。巴西被公认为最早根据其公共设施的粮食需求制定国家政策以支持家庭农业的国家之一。先前的研究已经表明，基于公共食品采购的项目产生了一些积极影响，这些项目建立了针对最贫穷家庭农民的新的机构市场。然而，仍然缺乏评估公共食品采购对建立更紧密的农民和消费者的地方食品系统的影响的研究。在这项研究中，基于主要和次要数据，我们试图验证基于食品采购的计划，即巴西食品采购计划（PAA），是否有助于巴西三个市镇的地方食品系统的构建和整合。一方面，我们的研究结果表明，PAA是家庭农业生产包容性的重要工具。另一方面，PAA对建立更本地化的粮食系统几乎没有贡献，这表明机构市场之外的其他驱动因素对于建立和支持当地粮食系统至关重要。

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International Journal on Food System Dynamics Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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期刊介绍： Understanding the development of the food system requires a system view that captures the complexity of the system and its many interrelationships with its economic, social and natural environments. The Journal accepts and offers papers within this broad range of issues focussing on the management, policy, marketing, consumer aspects, transparency, e-commerce, institutional or regional development, information and communication systems, ressource economics, production economics, chain management, network economics, and similar aspects. Papers may focus on modeling, empirical research or theoretical analyis. This broad range of publication opportunities asks authors to follow clear lines of arguments and to present arguments in a convincing way that avoids unnecessary complexities of model formulations if not relevant for the support of arguments. The publication of scientific articles is complemented by a number of sections that provide room for publications with a more specific focus: ''Case studies'': A section on case studies of the ''Harvard Type'' allows the publication of studies that might build on established scientific methodology but demonstrate its use in ceratin decision environments. Case studies might be complemented by ''teaching cases'' that are kept on a database outside the journal but accessible to readers on approval by authors. ''Research Forum'': It allows to discuss newly emerging research challenges or to contribute to ongoing scientific discussions on research problems. In addition, authors might initiate a discussion on issues brought up by articles published in the journal. ''Research Notes'': It provides room for specific shorter scientific contributions with a narrow scope.