The Program of Acquisition of Foods in the Rural Territories Litoral and Campos de Cima da Serra

Authors

  • RAMOS, Jenifer Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) e Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
  • KUHN, Igor Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (NESAN), Programa de Pós Graduação em Desenvolvimento Rural da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PGDR/UFRGS)
  • COELHO-DE-SOUZA, Gabriela Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (NESAN), Programa de Pós Graduação em Desenvolvimento Rural da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PGDR/UFRGS)

Keywords:

PAA, Family Farming, Food and Nutrition Security

Abstract

The PAA food acquisition program is a program created by the Federal Government to encourage
family farming and also to provide quality food to groups of food insecure people. Having
as analysis space the territories of Campos de Cima da Serra and Litoral, more specifically
as object the values and percentages of the PAA for micro regions and municipalities. In the
Litoral territory it was possible to visualize that the microregion that most provides the program
is the micro region of Encosta and in the territory Campos de Cima da Serra is the Transition
microregion.

Published

2018-08-21