Resumo

In Brazil, regulation for food procurement for public schools states that at least 30% of the whole amount of money handed from the federal government to each municipality must be used to buy food from family farm producers. The available data on this public policy indicates different achievements on this goal by the municipalities (FNDE, 2016). This diversity can be related to different social, economic, geographical context, governance structures and other factors.

The purpose of this research is to investigate factors related to varieties of compliance with legislation regarding food public procurement for schools. We used a literature review methodology looking for the word PNAE in Brazilian research databases.

Public procurement has been used in the world to achieve social objectives since the 19th century. As the government has a large demand for products and services, it has the power to introduce markets policies and incentive new behaviors (Stefani et al, 2017). One issue that draws attention is the possible incompatibility of objectives pertaining school food policies. On one hand, there is the interest in buying affordable food so that the students have access to it, however on the other hand, there is the need to ensure sustainability for farmers.

We identified and analyzed 25 articles. They reached a peak in 2017, most of them uses qualitative analyses, are not nationwide and is published in journals related to health issues. The results show thirteen positive and negative factors, divided into coordination mechanisms and social, economic and geographical local context. Positive factors examples are municipalization strategy adopted and family producer’s proximity. Negative factors examples are bureaucracy, infrastructure problems and resistance to change.

With the literature so far, it is not possible to deduce what strategies would be better for accomplishing this policy nationwide as most of the research’s found are based in one or a group of locations. However, research strategy adopted by these papers can be appropriate for Brazil, where indeed one procedure that is very successful for one region, meaning that it leads to more family farm products procurement, can be unsuitable for another. Because it can be infeasible or would lead to unexpected results.

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