Entraves entre alimentação escolar e agricultores familiares

Abstract

The aim of this study was to understand the main barriers between the demand for school meals and the supply of Family Farming. This is a descriptive study, with quantitative and qualitative approach, conducted in ten municipalities of the state of Tocantins. Data were collected from a structured questionnaire applied to workshop participants. Specifically, the main demands and interferences in the effectiveness of NSFP were evaluated through the SWOT and world café methods. Data processing was performed using Microsoft Excel 2013. Relations between education, agriculture, planning, procurement and rural technical assistance should be networked. The composition of school menus prioritize the insertion of fruits and vegetables three times a week, with low prevalence of organic / agroecological foods. It was also evidenced some of the difficulties of inserting the family farming products in the school feeding as climatic interferences, low variety and insufficient quantities of food, besides the low organization of the farmers. The results of this study indicate the need for mulltiple strategies to be instrumented for cohesion between piblic management, the rural technical assistance service and farmers to consolidate the program.