Food supply produced by family farming for school feeding in Costa Rica: Potentialities and limitations

School feeding has been considered as a linking mechanism between family farming production and food consumption, being a meeting point between public feeding and sustainable development. In this process, the operation of the Programa de Abastecimiento Institucional (PAI) within the scope of the Pro...

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Autores: Zúñiga-Escobar, Marianela, Grisa, Cátia, Coelho-de-Souza, Gabriela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)
Repositorio:Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.online.unisc.br:article/15086
Acceso en línea:https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/15086
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Abastecimiento institucional. Agricultura Familiar. Alimentación escolar. Seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. Sistemas alimentarios sostenibles.
Institutional supply. Family farming. School feeding
Food and Nutrition Security. Sustainable food systems.
Abastecimento institucional. Agricultura familiar. Alimentação escolar. Segurança alimentar e nutricional. Sistemas alimentares sustentãveis.
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Sumario:School feeding has been considered as a linking mechanism between family farming production and food consumption, being a meeting point between public feeding and sustainable development. In this process, the operation of the Programa de Abastecimiento Institucional (PAI) within the scope of the Programa de Alimentación y Nutrición del Escolar y del Adolescente (PANEA) regain interest. The objective of this article is to analyze the main potentialities and limitations of the food supply process produced by agricultural families for school feeding in Costa Rica. A qualitative research was carried out with semi-structured interviews and discussion groups with the participation of various actors involved in two pilot projects (2016-2018) of the Escuelas Sostennibles initiative in the towns of Frailes in Desamparados and Coto Brus. As a result, it is evident that the main limitations lie in the lack of mechanisms that provide differentiated treatment for food supply produced by local agricultural families. On the other hand, the potential experiences of the process are expressed in values that exceed the economic aspects, they are presented in sociocultural and ethical manifestations generated during the reception of food in educational centers, responding to the social market construction that characterize public purchases of food.