State Support in Brazil for a Local Turn to Food

Ana Paula Matei, Paul Swagemakers, Maria Dolores Dominguez Garcia, Leonardo Xavier Da Silva, Flaminia Ventura and Pierluigi Milone
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Ana Paula Matei: Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (SEDETEC/UFRGS), Porto Alegre 90040-020, Brazil
Paul Swagemakers: Department of Applied Economics, University of Vigo, Ourense 32004, Spain
Maria Dolores Dominguez Garcia: Department of Applied Economics, Complutense University of Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223, Spain
Leonardo Xavier Da Silva: Departamento de Economia e Relações Internacionais, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Su, Porto Alegre 90040-000, Brazil
Flaminia Ventura: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale (DICA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), University of Perugia, Perugia 06125, Italy
Pierluigi Milone: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale (DICA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), University of Perugia, Perugia 06125, Italy

Agriculture, 2017, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: The local turn to food is often claimed to be a way to increase the value-added component retained by primary producers and to provide healthy, fresh and affordable food to consumers. Rio do Grande do Sul in Brazil has several governmental support programs that aim to empower family farmers and open up new market opportunities for them. This article examines these programs, investigates how small-scale farmers engage with them and the resultant changes in farming and marketing practices that ensue. The article uses cluster and content analysis to identify and interpret the extent, and the different ways, in which these farmers engage with and make use of the local knowledge and innovation system. The results provide useful insights into how policy instruments improve the performance of family agribusinesses, helping them to make better use of the resources available to them, encouraging farm diversification, and strengthening local interrelations between producers and consumers.

Keywords: farm diversity; public programs and policies; regional development; rural entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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