Os reflexos do PRONAF em comunidades quilombolas de Bequimão - MA

Abstract

As a problem of this study, we understand that public policies implemented in Brazil for rural development act differently within the Brazilian territory, since regional inequalities affect the implementation and effectiveness of programs, such as the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF) . Focusing on the specific barriers faced by family farmers from quilombola communities in less developed rural regions, we present the objective of this work, which was related to an analysis of the consequences of the insertion of projects financed by PRONAF in quilombola communities in Bequimão. The specific objectives included an understanding of the relationship between PRONAF and food security in the quilombola communities investigated; an assessment of socioeconomic changes in communities that contracted program credits; and an assessment of the role of the State in implementing public policies thatguarantee food security and the territorialities of quilombola communities. Under the hypothesis that local, municipal and state institutions could fill the gaps in implementing the program, with the potential to mitigate the barriers faced by family farmers, such as rural unions, agricultural cooperatives, community associations and mainly the actions of assistance bodies technique, could work to overcome these barriers and promote access to PRONAF and its benefits. As for methodology, this work has an exploratory nature, where a literature review was carried out as well as field research using SIDRA-IBGE data, in which the time frame takes place between the years 2017 to 2021, interviews were carried out at the Rural Development Secretariat of the municipality of Bequimão and data was collected from Banco do Nordeste. As a result of this work we arrived at the consequences of PRONAF in which we highlight, difficulty in accessing the program by quilombola communities in this municipality, reflecting a small numberof contracts in the analyzed period in which the contracts are summarized in the PRONAF B and PRONAF Mais Alimentos modalities.