Controle social: a dimensão política das compras da agricultura familiar no Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE

Abstract

This study has as its central theme school meals, the National c ool eals ro ram - A and t e or of t e c ool eals ouncils - A in ei teen municipalities in the Development Region (RD) of the North Forest of Pernambuco. The CAE is the institutional body for the social control of the PNAE and the object of this research. The PNAE, whose emergence, we can date in 1955, is linked to the actions of the Brazilian State in the fight against hunger, even in the 20th century. Changes in the organizational structure and in the operations of transferring financial resources, especially with the decentralization of the execution of the PNAE, are directly associated with the achievements of the 1980s, mainly, the so-called Citizen Constitution (1988) and also, the reform of the State in the decade 1990, as an adaptation to the antisocial agenda of the international movement of neoliberal capitalism. It is a research of qualitative analysis of the political dimension of the social control of the purchases of family agriculture of the PNAE in the referred RD. The results of the research indicate that the social control of the PNAE, through the CAE, constitutes as a functional part of the state control system. In this, the hierarchical structural design and prescriptive administrative and legal procedures rationalize the state bureaucracy and enable PNAE Executing Entities (EExs) to make decisions, step by step of the PNAE and legitimized by discursive narratives of efficiency and competition, which result in the exclusion of family farmers in the institutional market for direct food purchases from schools in all municipalities. Such decisions are based on the PNAE legislation itself to make CAE's social control politically subordinate and to make its deliberative, supervisory and advisory actions functional to the interests of local political leaders and businessmen, printing the exclusive economic logic in the form of not purchasing food from family farming or not complying with the minimum and mandatory percentage of thirty percent of the resources transferred by the FNDE. T e deliberations and t e “democratic” consensus in t e A ’s, in t e form of conclusive opinions on accountability, represent the accommodation of class conflicts with a determining role of the State (EFAs from the PNAE represented by the municipalities and the Union through the FNDE). In the interests of the interests at the moment, such a consensus represents the State leading democracy (Lenin, 2017) and the absence of social control by family farmers and advisers to the PPAs in order to comply with the legislation that obliges EExs to purchase food in the minimum percentage of thirty percent. Therefore, the institutional PNAE market in this region did not, between 2010 and 2016, meet the priorities of safe and healthy school meals and did not create local economic dynamism.