Case Study of the School Feeding Program in Distrito Federal, Brazil: Building Quality in Short Food Supply Chains

Amanda Souza () and Armando Fornazier
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Amanda Souza: Postgraduate Program in Agribusiness (CEPAN), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 91540-000, Brazil
Armando Fornazier: Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine (FAV), University of Brasília, Brasília 70910-900, Brazil

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 16, 1-16

Abstract: This article seeks to analyze the public procurement program for school feeding in Distrito Federal, Brazil from the perspective of short food supply chains (SFSCs) and quality construction. Semi-structured interviews were applied to key actors involved in the Program. The results of this research show that, mainly through the regulations around Food and Nutritional Security and in the encouragement of local family farmer markets, the State has acted for a quality shift through public purchases and, mainly by means of norms such as laws, decrees, and normative instructions, induced a quality change in the production and consumption processes. This study contributed to an understanding of how Executing Entities such as states are working to acquire local and quality agricultural products, which benefits local farmers and improves the quality of school meals.

Keywords: short food supply chains; quality; institutional markets; school feeding program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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