Análise dos impactos do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) sobre a Agricultura Familiar no Brasil

Abstract

Public policies aimed at encouraging family farming have grown significantly. One of the factors that represents this progress was the reformulation of the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), which, through Law 11,947 of 2009, determined that 30% of the resources allocated to the purchase of school meals transferred by the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE) to the PNAE must be used to purchase food from family farming. Thus, the PNAE now has among its objectives the encouragement of family farming. Due to the importance of the program, this study analyzes the impact of the PNAE on the revenue of family farming establishments and verifies the heterogeneous effects among the Brazilian regions (North, Northeast, Southeast, South and Central-West). To this end, the regression discontinuous design (RDD) approach was used, based on data from the FNDE and the 2017 Agricultural Census. The results for Brazil show a positive impact on the revenue of family farming establishments. The analysis for the regions, however, indicates that there are still weaknesses to be addressed with a view to expanding the effects arising from the PNAE.