Quando o agricultor não chega à escola: Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar da Agricultura Familiar

Abstract

This study is about the relationship between family farmers in a city located in the center of Ceará state and the National School Food Programme – PNAE. It focuses mainly in the Article 14 of the Federal Law 11.947/2009, which stablishes that at least 30% of the financial resources destined to buying school food must be spent with food from Family farming. It tries to explain how is caracterized the action of the school and City administration in buying products from family farmers as well as verifying if such purchase has considered local food culture and the development of actions of Nutricional and Food Education – EAN. It researches how PNAE mobilizes forces in the community to raise the local development, trying to understand local social culture, in their actions of social development to the access of family farmers to the market of School Meals. Qualitative approach had, as a tool, the interviews done with farmers, local leaders, institutionals actors from the Programme, educational actors who participated in the training of the farmers to be part of the PNAE, technicals professionals from the NGOs and EMATERCE, the diretor of a state school and people in charge of the nutritional aspects of the School Meals. To analyse these speeches it was used the theorical methodological support of the book Entrevista Compreensiva, from Kaufmann (2013), and of the book Hermenêutica da Profundidade, from Thompson (1995). The discussion on PNAE, EAN, Nutritional Food Safety, besides the problematization on social capital of the área, anchored on the pressupostos of Putnam (2006) and Castilhos (2002), it tried to favour the comprehension of the practice of the public policies of local development and relations of trust. The findings of the research indicated a separation in the relationship of trust and dialogue with family farmers from the Municipality and institucionais agents from PNAE, precluding the buying of food itens from family farmers, and put in risk of ending the Food Security and Nutritional Food of the region and the Nutritional Food Education of the students.