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Public procurement as strategy to foster organic transition: insights from the Brazilian experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2019

Ricardo Serra Borsatto Open the ORCID record for Ricardo Serra Borsatto [Opens in a new window] ,
Miguel A. Altieri Open the ORCID record for Miguel A. Altieri [Opens in a new window] ,
Henrique Carmona Duval  and
Julian Perez-Cassarino Open the ORCID record for Julian Perez-Cassarino [Opens in a new window]
Ricardo Serra Borsatto*
Affiliation:
Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Center of Nature Sciences, 18245-970, Buri, Brazil
Miguel A. Altieri
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, ESPM, 94720, Berkeley, USA
Henrique Carmona Duval
Affiliation:
Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Center of Nature Sciences, 18245-970, Buri, Brazil
Julian Perez-Cassarino
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Laranjeiras do Sul, 85301-000Laranjeiras do Sul, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: Ricardo Serra Borsatto, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Initiatives to foster a transition toward organic agriculture have drawn policy-makers' interest worldwide. However, research studies evaluating the effectiveness of policies intended to promote ‘scaling-out’ organic production systems to more farms and larger production areas are still rare. To better understand the role that public procurement and price incentive policies have in scaling-out organic transitions, we assessed the effects of the Brazilian Food Acquisition Program (PAA) in a group of municipalities. PAA offers both markets for family farmers and price incentives for certified organic products. However, our findings suggest that farmers who establish organic production systems and become certified also gain access to other markets; ones that they find more attractive than those created by the PAA. Thus, we find that the PAA offers insufficient incentives for adopting organic practices among peasant and family farmers and supports the argument that scaling-out organic production is a multilevel process that depends on different, but interrelated drivers.

Keywords

Brazilfamily farmingFood Acquisition Program (PAA)institutional food procurementorganic transitionscaling-out
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Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 2020 , pp. 688 - 696
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