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Food Procurement in Post-neoliberal Countries: Examples from South America

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This article analyzes public food procurement policy as one of the characteristics of post-neoliberalism in South America, whereby food produced by family farmers and peasants is purchased by the state and then donated to low-income people and public-school students. Focusing on Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay, the study demonstrates how such experiences partly break the control that large agri-food corporations exert in the food systems of these countries. This occurs because public food procurement has created a new market opportunity for family farmers and peasants and has also functioned as a mechanism to combat hunger and promote democratized access to good food. Moreover, such initiatives can be understood as providing a possibility to re-spatialize food by promoting closer contact between food producers and consumers.

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  • Estevan Coca, 2021. "Food Procurement in Post-neoliberal Countries: Examples from South America," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 10(2), pages 275-295, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:10:y:2021:i:2:p:275-295
    DOI: 10.1177/22779760211032067
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