ROSA, Marcela Pereira    SVARTMAN, Bernardo Parodi. Agroecology and public policies: reflections on a scenario in constants disputes. []. , 18, 41, pp.18-41. ISSN 1519-549X.

In the current agricultural context, the agroecology has been presenting itself as an important alternative to the hegemonic model of agribusiness. One of agroecology expansion opportunities in Brazilian agriculture has been the public policies implementation with opening for the agroecological approach. However this implementation happens in a full of disputes and contradictions scenario. Our aim in this paper is introduce a discussion about this, having as focus the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the National Program for School Food Supply (PNAE), thinking about potentialities and limits of agroecology insertion in these programs in the way how it has been done. As an expression of these advances and fragilities we introduce the report of an agroecologist about the peasant families access to these programs through an agroecologists farmers association in state of Paraná, Brazil. We founded that the disputes in the Brazilian agriculture context reverberate in the way as the agroecology inclusion in public policies is happening. Faced with this scenario, we understand to be essential for the consolidation of agroecological public policies, the organization and mobilization of social movements and their impact throughout the construction process of these policies.

: Agroecology; Public Policies; PAA; PNAE; Social Movements.

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