Public politics in the state of maranhão: the roles of pronaf and paa
International Journal of Development Research
Public politics in the state of maranhão: the roles of pronaf and paa
Received 19th November, 2019; Received in revised form 11th December, 2019; Accepted 16th January, 2020; Published online 27th February, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Joabe Alves Carneiro and Adriana Estela Sanjuan Montebello. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The research aims to characterize family farming in the State of Maranhão as well as presenting and discussing the public politics that influences the development of family farming in the State, in this case, the PRONAF and the institutional purchases through the PAA. The methodology assumed an exploratory characteristic, with quantitative approaches. As a result, it was demonstrated that Maranhão is the second State in the northeast with application of PRONAF’s resources, 21% of the resources are concentrated in five cities, being the main financial agent is the Bank of the Northeast (BNB). In relation to the PAA, in the state of Maranhão, 27,278 families were aided, 591 projects and 50,357,610.27 kg of food commercialized in the value of R$ 106.865.450.08 in the period from 2003 to 2017. It was concluded that the programs contributed for the local rural development in the State, inputting financial capital with the commercialization of products from the family farming.
