O Programa de Aquisição de Alimento da Agricultura Familiar : o caso da Associação Chico Mendes de Rondonópolis - MT

Abstract

Family farming in Brazil has revealed important segment to build social and economic of the country, based on Agrarian Reform and the struggles of rural social movements that seek the realization of the category, worthy of state support. The Food Acquisition Program comes with public policy in order to promote the family farm and set the workers in the field, so that they can cultivate the land and their livelihood extract it with the assurance of production and sale price. However, research on the reality of this policy is necessary to ascertain whether in fact is reaching workers in order to condition an improvement in the quality of life for ourselves. The historical construction of Mato Grosso, guided by the concentration of land, estates and inequality, is no exception to the Brazilian reality in the presence of agribusiness that absorbs the attention of the state today, relegate family farming difficult conditions of their maintenance. This is the case of the Association of Chico Mendes Rondonópolis - MT, which despite maintaining partnership with the City for ensuring the Food Acquisition Program, has reached levels of satisfaction due to the lack of commitment of the government to fulfill its part the agreement.