Intended to encourage family farming and promote food and nutritional security, the Food Acquisition Program - PAA purchases products directly from family farmers and their organizations to attend population in situation of vulnerability through the do nation of these foods. This study did a...

The Food Acquisition Program (PAA) is a public policy that uses the federal government's purchasing power to promote the strengthening of family farming and combat food and nutritional insecurity in Brazil. This text presents an analysis of PAA acquisitions in the period from 2011 to 2019 to...

The Food Acquisition Program (PAA) was established in 2003 in the context of the political agenda that was characterized by the fight against hunger, which later resulted in the institutionalization of the National System of Food and Nutrition Security (Sisan) in 2006, and the National Policy on...

Chinese society has transformed in recent decades, moving from a predominantly agricultural country to one of the largest economies in the world. However, the accelerated industrialization and urbanization process has created considerable gaps between the rural and urban areas and the...

In 2022, international mineral fertilizer prices reached high levels, which caused concern in the agricultural market. In this context, the present study analyzed the behavior of the mineral fertilizer market in Brazilian agricultural production. Using the SVAR model, the relationship between...

The trajectory of the food and nutritional security in the government agenda was marked throughout the twentieth century by a series of discontinuities, low degree of centrality in the general political and few social results. This work aims to analyze this historical trajectory and evaluate the...

United States and India represent trade partners with strong demand for Brazilian food or interesting potential for future business. Here the objective was to verify the importance and potential in USA and Indian markets for Brazilian agricultural exports. Results based on identifying products...

It is renowned the importance of trade balance for maintaining macroeconomic equilibrium. So, the objective of the study was to identify main products in Brazilian agricultural exports from 1989 to 2012 and, secondly, to describe the identified products and formulate questions for future...

The mean goal of the study was to map food products that are constant or regular in Brazilian imports during 1989-2012 periods. Analyzing Brazilian agricultural imports face to Brazilian total imports it is possible to observe a decreasing cost of food imports in terms of Brazilian imports....

Actually, Brazil shows expertise in production, internal supply and exports of an extended variety of agricultural products and their processed products. At the same time, several studies expose Brazil's competitive capacity in those products, and a projected increase in world demands for foods,...