Impacto da pandemia de Covid - 19 na aquisição de alimentos da agricultura familiar para a alimentação escolar no município de Igaci, Alagoas

Abstract

With the COVID-19 pandemic, an important measure to contain its advance was social isolation. In view of this, schools had to suspend classes, and the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) suffered a great impact in the acquisition of food from family farming during this period. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the acquisition of food from family farming for school feeding in the municipality of Igaci, Alagoas. This is a documentary research, carried out in the period from 2022 to 2023, using information made available through the portal of the National Fund for the Development of Education - FNDE, documents available on the website of the city hall of the municipality studied, these being public calls for the years 2019 , 2020 and 2021. As observed during the research, the pandemic and social isolation did not result in major changes in the values of products purchased by family farming, such products being zucchini, lettuce, garlic, banana, sweet potato, onion , chives, carrots, chayote among other products produced by farmers in the region. It was found that the amount spent on food purchased by family farming in 2019, the year that preceded social isolation, was R$ 70,747.28, which corresponds to 14.6% evaluated by the FNDE for Igaci. In 2020, the year in which social isolation was decreed, the total amount acquired from family farming was $35,687.38 (balance plus interest from the previous year), according to information on the FNDE website, there was no transfer by the federal government to the municipality in that year. In 2021, the amount transferred was R$395,874.60 and, of these, 33% were allocated to purchases from family farming.