Efeitos dos Programas Governamentais de Aquisição de Alimentos para a Agricultura Familiar em Espera Feliz, MG

The research allowed diagnosing various effects of the programs with their beneficiaries, among them: i) Economic: increase of production, work and income; Diversification of production and access to new markets; ii) Social: strengthening of local associative organizations, expansion of institutional relations, greater family involvement in production; iii) Environment: incentive to free production of pesticides and iv) Food security: Product quality.

It was concluded that the identification of effects in all categories analyzed indicates that the programs have provided multiple positive effects for local family farming, imparting a new social and economic dynamics to the group of family farmers who joined institutional purchases.