PERCEPTION OF NUTRITIONISTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF FAMILY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS FOR SCHOOL FOOD IN THE NORTHWEST COLONIAL CITIZEN TERRITORY/RS

Abstract

Law No. 11.947/2009 guarantees school feeding for students of all public basic education and requires that of the total resources passed on by the National Education Development Fund to the municipalities or states, at least 30% should be used for the acquisition of Products from family farming. The objective of this research was to analyze and map the family farming included in the National School Feeding Program in the Northwest Colonial Territory - RS, as well as to analyze the perception of nutritionists regarding the difficulties encountered in buying food from family farmers and the benefits that this Law brought to each municipality. Methodology: A qualitative descriptive study where the nutritionists of the three municipalities with the highest and lowest percentage of purchases of family agriculture were interviewed in the year 2014. The interviews were carried out from May to September 2016, individually in the work environment of these professionals, which were recorded, later transcribed and analyzed. Results: All the interviewees emphasized that this Program strengthens the local Family Agriculture, besides generating more employment and income for the municipality, affirm that with PNAE the students receive a healthier diet, contributing to the improvement of eating habits and school performance. The main difficulties cited by the interviewees were the lack of organization on the part of the producers. Conclusion: Therefore, in the perception of nutritionists interviewed this Law benefited students and farmers in the region and the main difficulties encountered were bureaucratic processes, production organization and sanitary inspection.