Das (im)possibilidades do mercado institucional para agricultura familiar: análise do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos no assentamento rural Cinturão Verde no município de São Luís – MA, de 2014 a 2020

Abstract

The present researcha aims to analyze the implications of the Food Acquisition Program dynamics in the rural Cinturão Verde settlement. We highlighted the Cinturão Verde settlement in this research, considering that the settlement concentrating the largest number of PAA beneficiaries in the municipality of São Luís, in addition, the city counted as one of the municipalities of Maranhão with the greatest representation in the PAA, in terms of consumer and supplier beneficiaries. We also seek in this research, to link the process of articulation of the Cinturão Verde settlement with the PAA; identify the barriers of the institutional market in the Cinturão Verde settlement; diagnose the socioeconomic effects on the productive organization of the Cinturão Verde settlement. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, we established Historical and Dialectical Materialism for our analysis as theoreticalmethodological foundation, since we highlighted the existing power correlations and the game of forces mediated by the state, as well as the theoretical framework with the authors who discuss territory, family farming and PAA, besides collecting secondary data in order to assist us in our analyses representing them cartographically. Thus, we analyzed the public policies behavior aimed at the countryside, highlighting the disarticulation of structures on the Federal scale of support for family farming which is reflected in the drastic cuts in such policies, as PAA instituted in 2003, as a policy aimed at for the promotion of food security combining family with the fight against hunger. We also list the socio-spatial transformations in the municipality of São Luís, in order to emphasize how these have affected agricultural production in the rural area of the municipality, especially the Cinturão Verde settlement which is characterized by a diversified agricultural production serving markets in large urban centers of São Luís, as well as the implications of the PAA dynamics for the settlement farmers, especially the disarticulations that the policy has been suffering and compromising the family agricultural production, consequently the generation of income and the acquisition of food amid the increase of food insecurity in the country, considering that the socioeconomic changes promoted by the State