Manejo de estoques e segurança alimentar: repensando estratégias (1965-1998)

Abstract

Our intention in this thesis was rethinking the limits, advance and regression of the intervention of State in the agricultural commercialization, particularly in terms of the effectiveness of handling food supplies by the public instance that intervenes, forging conditions of order and liquidity in commodities markets. In Brazil, the handling of public stores coincided with the Guaranteed Minimum Prices Policy (PGPM) that historically was subordinated to diverse objectives than others related to the regulated stabilization of markets. We focus in special the period mediated by the years of 1965 and 1998, with emphasis in the approval of a new set of ordering rules for the (non retail) markets, a strengthening element for the better arbitration of the public manager in the regulation of the agricultural markets in the country. Contradictorily, however, such potential of intervention chocked with the fiscal crisis of the Brazilian State and in the financial pressure deterioration of the system, besides of the macroeconomic scenario of great exposure of the Brazilian economy to the international market in 90th years. Particularly after the implantation of the Real Plan, the strategy of an economic policy referred to circumstantial external market prices, appropriated by means of key-parameter of the agricultural and commercial policies, was too dangerous. Lacking consistent rules to order the commercialization, the proper public performance tended to aggravate the market instability making impracticable, by this means, the coordination of the interchange as a basis for the regulated stability of food prices. In truth, such stability could constitute one of the elements to improve consistent policies of food security, especially in an asymmetric reality like that one of Brazil, where the public institutionality with stores traditionally lacked any explicit correlation with so urgent theme.