Os caminhos da alimentação escolar: o programa nacional de alimentação escolar (pnae) em Uberlândia - MG

Abstract

The Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) [National School Feeding Program] is responsible for helping the teaching-learning process of public school students throughout the country by providing food that meets their nutritional needs during the school term. In addition to that, it works with the concept of nutritional education in a way that is integrated into the pedagogical project of educational institutions. Since 2009, with the implementation of Law 11.947/2009 on the Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE), a process has begun to strengthen the relationship between school nutrition and regional family farming. The 14th article of this legislation requires that at least 30% of the financial resources transferred by the Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE) [National Education Development Fund] to the Executing Entities must be used to buy products from family farmers, rural entrepreneurs or their organizations. The public school feeding policy in question has a national scope, but is applied on a regional basis, since the funds are passed on to states and municipalities, which are responsible for drawing up and implementing the programme. In view of the entire structure of the PNAE, this research seeks to describe who are the social and institutional participants involved in the development and implementation of the policy in a municipal level, and it also seeks to evaluate the implementation of Art.14 of the Law 11.947/2009, which corresponds to one of the deliberations of the PNAE in the municipal public schools in Uberlândia - MG during the years 2020 and 2023. In order to do this, it was necessary to collect data made available by public institutions, and to interview the individuals involved in order to understand the particular processes in the city under research and the difficulties faced in implementing the expected of Law 11.947/2009. Thus, by evaluating effectiveness with a focus on processes, it was possible to conclude that the municipal schools of Uberlândia reached and exceeded the minimum 30% established by the law only in 2022.