ROCHA, Flávia Nayanna Alves da.
Abstract:
The National School Feeding Program aims to offer healthy, adequate and safe food which
respects culture, traditions and healthy eating habits, contributing to the growth and
development of students and improving school performance. In June 2009, the amend 11,947
determined that of the total financial resources transferred by FNDE, within the range of the
PNAE, at least 30% should be used in the acquisition of foodstuffs directly from family farming
and the rural family entrepreneur or its organizations. This work aims to evaluate the conditions
for access to the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), as well as to elaborate a plan of
facilitated insertion for farmers in the PNAE from the town of Pombal-PB. With regard to the
methodology, it is a descriptive and qualitative research, based on documentary analysis to
survey the number of rural producers registered with the Special Secretariat for Family
Agriculture and Agrarian Development (SEAD), who have DAP (Declaration of Aptitude to
Pronaf) and through an open interview with technicians from the Paraibana Research Company,
rural extension and land regularization (EMPAER) in the town, in order to highlight the
difficulties experienced by farmers that hinder the insertion of these small producers in the
school feeding program of the city. As well as, the elaboration of an electronic form that would
allow the Executing Entity of the Program to collect data on farmers in the municipality and
assist them on how to participate in PNAE there and an information booklet directed to family
farmers in Pombal in order to allow, based on the knowledge of the PNAE and how to execute
the step-by-step documentary adjustments and their products, new farmers can benefit from
being included in the program. As a result, it was noticed that only 3.57% of the total farmers
with active PAD are inserted in the municipality's PNAE, which is one of the requirements of
the program and becomes even more insignificant when compared to the number of PAD
records that is 3,094, of which 63.96% expired and 4.33% canceled. According to data from the
FNDE and municipal contributions to the execution of the PNAE, the municipality meets the
minimum amount required by law in the purchase of family farming products, having been
52.12%, 40.09% and 35.32% in the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively. However, it is
necessary to understand that the PNAE is a public policy that covers the entire national territory,
nevertheless, understanding and inserting local family farming contributes to sustainable rural
development and the reduction of social problems such as the lack of healthy food.
