PUBLIC POLICIES FOR FAMILY FARMING

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PUBLIC POLICIES FOR FAMILY FARMING
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Family Farming's Recognition by the Government
Lack of Public Policies for Family Farmers

• DAP PRONAF Eligibility Declaration is the
  document that identifies the family farmer.
• DAP may be obtained from previously authorized
  institutions
• the official entities of Technical Aid and Rural
  Extension
• the Agriculture Federations and Confederations,
  through their unions

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Family Farming's Recognition by the Government
MDA (since 2003)
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Family Farming's Recognition by the Government
Law nº 11.326, July 24th, 2006 We can consider
family farmers and rural family entrepreneurs
those who practice farm activities in rural
areas, fullfiling the following requirements I
- do not hold an area larger than four (4) tax
modules II - predominantly use labor of their
own families III - most of the family income
comes from their own property IV - manage your
property with your family. Beneficiaries
foresters, gatherers, fishermen, quilombolas,
indigenous and family farmers settled in land
reform.
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NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR FAMILY FARMING STRENGTHENING
- PRONAF

• Credit lines for financing individual and group
  projects
• Low interest rates 0,5 a 4,5 per year
• Credit for current spending and investment, rural
  microcredit, credit for family farmers settled in
  land reform and special lines More Food, Women,
  Young people, Familiar Agribusiness , others
• Different funding sources savings, deposits,
  constitutional funds, Workers Fund (FAT) and the
  Union budget
• Operated by public and private banks and credit
  cooperatives
• It has a portfolio of 1.4 million contracts,
  totaling 15 billion Reais
• Lowest rates of default among credit systems in
  the country.

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FAMILY FARMING INSURANCE- SEAF

• Insurance for the family farmers who hire
  agricultural funding at PRONAF. The accession to
  this service is automatic.
• It covers losses due to weather events and non
  preventable pests.
• Its based on the regions agricultural zoning.
• Insured value 100 of the financed value and 65
  of the expected net income, which is limited to
  R 7.000,00 per farmer per year.
• Shared management with Banco Central and traded
  by the financial agents.
• It protects funding and ensures debt payments.

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CROP GUARANTEE

• It assures mininum income for family farmers from
  the Semi-Arid region
• who lose more than 50 of their production
  in case of drought or flood.
• Beneficiaries producers of rice, cotton, beans,
  cassava and corn,
• included in PRONAF, with a monthly income
  up to 1.5 minimum wage
• (rural retirement not included).
• Farmers accession before planting.
  Beneficiaries selecion is made by
• the Municipal Council For Sustainable Rural
  Development.
• Its a federative Program Federal
  Government(20), States(6) and
• municipalities (3), and Family Farming(1)
  on the Crop Guarantee
• Fund.

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FAMILY FARMING PROGRAM FOR PRICING GUARANTEE -
PGPAF

• Its na insurance for the family farmers who use
  PRONAF for current spending or investiment, in
  case of low prices in the market.
• It ensures a discount on the funding payment,
  which consists on the difference between the
  market price and the products guarantee price.
• It ensures the remuneration of the family
  farmers production costs.
• Its traded by banks, MDA and CONAB.

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NATIONAL POLICY FOR TECHNICAL AID AND RURAL
EXTENSION - PNATER

• The main goal of technical aid and rural
  extension (ATER) is to improve the production
  systems and the access to resources, services and
  income, in a sustainable manner.
• There are 13 thousand ATER technicians all over
  Brasil. They are acting on the municipal offices,
  which are registered on SIBRATER.
• SIBRATER Brazilian System of Technical Aid and
  Rural Extension. Its managed by MDA
• All Official ATER Entities are registered in
  SIBRATER
• Total 451
• Federal Goverment-owned 41
• Non Federal Government-owned 410

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PAA and PNAE Institutional Food Markets

• The importance of the State in structuring fair
  systems of production, distribution and
  consumption of food
• Programs to encourage the trading of Family
  Farming
• They are part of the strategy of rural
  productive inclusion in the BRAZIL WITHOUT
  MISERY PLAN - PBSM

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FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM - PAA

• The PAA is one of the actions of Fome Zero
  Program (Zero Hunger). The mains goals are
• To ensure food access for the people who face
  nutritional and food insecurity
• To promote social inclusion in the countryside by
  strengthening family farming selling support
• To constitute public stocks of food produced by
  family farmers
• To allow family farmers to stock their products
  to be sold for fairer prices.

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FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM - PAA

• It consists on the Government buying food from
  family farmers without bureaucratics barriers.
• Appropriate legal framework established by
  Article 19 of Law 10.696, July 2nd 2003, and
  further ruled by Decree in 2009
• Management Group six (6) Ministries
• Executive managers - States, Cities and National
  Supply Company CONAB.
• Social Control
• Federal level - National Council of Food and
  Nutrition Security (CONSEA) and National Council
  of Sustainable Rural Development (CONDRAF)
• State level - State Councils CONSEA and CEDRS
• Local Level - Municipal Councils of Food and
  Nutrition Security, Municipal Council of
  Sustainable Rural Development, and others alike.

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FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM - PAA

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FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM - PAA

MODALITIES RESOURCES LIMITS EXECUTIVE MANAGER WAYS OF ACCESS
Direct Purchase MDS/MDA R 8 mil CONAB Individual, Cooperatives and Associations
Stock Formation MDS/MDA R 8 mil CONAB Cooperatives and Associations
Purchase from Family Farming with Simultaneous Donation MDS R 4,5 mil (Individual) CONAB, States and Cities Individual, Cooperatives and Associations
Purchase from Family Farming with Simultaneous Donation MDS R 4,8 mil (Cooperatives/ Associations) CONAB, States and Cities Individual, Cooperatives and Associations
Incentive to Milk Production and Consumption MDS R 4 mil per semester Northeast Region and North Minas Gerais Individual, Cooperatives and Associations
Institutional Food Purchase ___ R 8 mil ___ Cooperatives and Associations
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FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM - PAA

• 2010 R 655,9 million (MDA and MDS), 155.600
  families
• 2011 R 665 million (MDA and MDS), 162.000
  families
• 2003 2011 R 3,2 billion (MDA and MDS),
  average of 160.000 families per year
• RESULTS
• It encourages the diversification of food
  produced by family farmers
• It increases the supply and consumption of
  quality food
• It values local food culture
• It ensures stable prices for producers
• It stimulates local economies development

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FOOD PURCHASE PROGRAM - PAA

• Challenges of PAA
• To enhance the production of organic foods and
  sociobiodiversity products
• To strengthen local trading networks
• To increase the participation of traditional
  communities and women in the different types of
  related work
• To consolidate the interface between PAA and
  PNAE
• To absorb the exceeding production of PBSM
  players.

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NATIONAL SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM - PNAE

• Law nº 11.947/2009 Law of School Feeding
• Art. 14- At least 30 (thirty percent) of the
  total financial resources granted by the National
  Fund for Educational Development (FNDE), within
  the PNAE, must be destined to acquire food
  products from family farmers, prioritizing land
  reform settlements, traditional indigenous and
  black rural communities (quilombolas) .

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P N A E

Family Farming
School Feeding
250 000 families may be benefited (estimated)
47 million students
About R1 billion
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NATIONAL SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM - PNAE
WHO SELLS Family Farmers and their economics
organizatios, holders of DAP (PRONAF Eligibility
Declaration) natural person or legal
entity Limit R 20.000 /DAP/ year WHO
BUYS Municipal and State Department of Education
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Purchasing Priority
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CAE - SCHOLL FEEDING COUNCIL

• Autonomous and deliberative council (two
  representatives nominated by organized civil
  society - where family farmers can participate)
• Goal to monitor the use of resources and to
  ensure the quality of products
• Established within the states, the Federal
  District and Municipalities

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Barriers and Challenges

• Weak organization among family farmers
• Difficulty to access tax documents
• Low production processing capacity
• Lack of cooperation from cookers and
  nutritionists when preparing and handling the
  family farmers pruducts
• Low infrastructure in schools (kitchen equipment
  and storage)

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Barriers and Challenges

• Competition with the food industry high scale
  and lower costs
• Health legislation unsuitable for family farmers
• Difficulty on distribution logistics
• Trust issues between family farmers and education
  department
• The players are not well trained for the trading
  process.

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BIG CITIES A HUGE CHALLENGE
Large number of students
Large budget
Urbanization Less Family Farmers

High demand and insufficient supplies
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NUTRE PROJECT
It is a methodology of ATER (Technical Aid and
Rural Extension) acting on two fronts
- along with the economical organizations of the
family farmers, in order to adequate them to
the school feeding demands. - along with the
municipalities managers, to help them on the
trading process with the family farmers.
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NUTRE PROJECTS Range

• Northeast region
• Pará
• Minas Gerais
• São Paulo
• Rio de Janeiro
• Budget R 10,5 millions
• 275 family farmers organizations supported
• About 12.000 beneficiary families
• 46 cities supported

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NUTRE PROJECT 2013

• 85 from FNDEs budget go to biggest cities on
  the range of NUTRE Project
• Budget R 25 millions
• 200 cooperatives
• 64 cities supported

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