Abstract
The objective of this paper is to analyze the
importance of the Food Acquisition Program (FAP) on the dynamics of
rural development of the Territory Citizenship Serto of Apodi, from Rio
Grande do Norte state, trying to understand the relationship between
the economic structure and family farming organization and
diversification of the agriculture family, with access to the state market from
Brazil in the period 2003 to 2011. As the study methodology included municipal
secondary data through desk research and used a qualitative
approach, in addition to quantitative data obtained through reports
Brazilian Supply Agency (CONAB), which have operations with FAP since
2004.Furthermore, we employ the LLM, Probit and Logit Models with
the objective of to verify is the institution like cooperative and
associations impacts the amount of investmento in the FAP. It was
possible to see the relationship between the economic structure and
organization of family farmers (especially cooperatives and associations) and
the diversification of family farming operations with the FAP. However,
there is a perceived weakness in the legalization of organizations,
such as the absence of the Municipal Inspection Service (SIM), State (SIE),
and Federal (SIF), especially for processed products like honey, fruit pulp
and milk, as well as certification for organic products. Also we
found that the number of cooperative and associations impacts the
amount of investment in FAP, given that a association more increase in
58% the probability of investment in FAP be greater the R$500.000, 00.