Políticas de abastecimento alimentar na perspectiva da segurança alimentar: o programa de abastecimento alimentar de Caxias do Sul, RS

Abstract

This study intended to problemize the aproach about the alimentary provisioning in municipal public policies and the relation that has been established with the alimentary safety. In search for an observatory for this study, I came across with the experience of Caxias do Sul, RS - which presented a municipal provisioning public policy since 1997. The local context originated important subjects for analysis, because it takes place in a traditional town concerning to food production, processing and consumption which exports products to several areas in the state and also to other states of the federation. Besides, there were farmers' fairs since 1979 and which have been stimulated by the municipal agriculture secretariat. It led the municipal provisioning policies to dedicated in order to enlarge and to qualify those fairs, turning the farmers Fairs the main equipment of the local provisioning policies. It is noticed that, at the time it was created, the municipal provisioning policies didn't make reference to alimentary safety, but along the years, with the institution of an Alimentary Safety and Social Inclusion Coordination, the program of municipal provisioning became recognized as an action of alimentary safety of the town and, so, to compose the local policies of alimentary safety. The temporary limitation of the study about the provisioning policies of Caxias do Sul is centered in the period from 1997 to 2005. The discussion about the alimentary provisioning pointed some factors which are conditional to the alimentary access: the) market regulation and creation of commercialization spaces; b) production foment - technical attendance and agricultural credit; c) information to the consumers and; d) employment and income generation. Considering the process in course in Caxias do Sul, of alimentary safety institutionalization with the social actors' participation, it is concluded that the treatment given to the alimentary provisioning has been overcoming the restricted actions to support the production and commercialization. In that sense, the local social actors participation in discussion and treatment of the alimentary provisioning was shown as fundamental.