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Revisitando o Pronaf: velhos questionamentos, novas interpretações

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  • Grisa, Catia
  • Wesz Junior, Valdermar João
  • Buchweitz, Vitor Duarte

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This paper aims at updating Pronaf ’s performance in Brazil, deepening the discussion about the beneficiary public and financed activities. The main source used for the analysis is the Statistical Yearbook of Rural Credit of Brazil’s Central Bank (1999-2012), supplemented with information from the Family Farming Secretariat (SAF) of the Agrarian Development Ministry (MDA), mainly for the period from 1996 to 1998. The results show that Pronaf maintains a concentration of resources and contracts on more capitalized farmers, commodity producers (mainly corn, soybeans and coffee) located in the South, Southeast and Center-West in Brazil, reinforcing its strong productivity-based bias. However, on the other hand, when analyzing spatialized data, we find the funding for a variety of crops in different regions. In regional terms, the increase of the overall resources and contracts has been higher in the Northeast and North. Despite this expansion, these regions and public remain, in absolute terms, the minority accessing Pronaf despite amounting for most of Brazilian family farmers.

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  • Grisa, Catia & Wesz Junior, Valdermar João & Buchweitz, Vitor Duarte, 2014. "Revisitando o Pronaf: velhos questionamentos, novas interpretações," Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural-RESR), Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural, vol. 52(2), pages 1-24, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:rdecag:185939
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.185939
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    1. Berchin, Issa Ibrahim & Nunes, Nei Antonio & de Amorim, Wellyngton Silva & Alves Zimmer, Gabriel Alfredo & da Silva, Franciani Rodrigues & Fornasari, Vitória Haendchen & Sima, Mihaela & de Andrade Gue, 2019. "The contributions of public policies for strengthening family farming and increasing food security: The case of Brazil," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 573-584.
    2. Ghinoi, Stefano & Wesz Junior, Valdemar João & Piras, Simone, 2018. "Political debates and agricultural policies: Discourse coalitions behind the creation of Brazil’s Pronaf," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 68-80.
    3. Zeller, Manfred & Schiesari, Carolina, 2020. "The unequal allocation of PRONAF resources: which factors determine the intensity of the program across Brazil?," Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR), Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural, vol. 58(3), January.

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