Supporting Food Production and Food Access through Local Public Procurement Schemes: Lessons from Brazil

Approaches that combine giving vulnerable segments of the population access to food with support to smallholder farmers for food production can offer significant benefits in tackling poverty and hunger. Public procurement can play an important role in these approaches, ensuring supplies for food aid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Souza, Darana, Chmielewska, Danuta
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15751
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/15751
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Supporting
Food Production
Food Access
Local Public
Procurement Schemes
Lessons
Brazil
Descripción
Sumario:Approaches that combine giving vulnerable segments of the population access to food with support to smallholder farmers for food production can offer significant benefits in tackling poverty and hunger. Public procurement can play an important role in these approaches, ensuring supplies for food aid schemes and market opportunities for farmers who otherwise would face great difficulties in establishing advantageous commercial relations. The benefits of such approaches can be very substantial when procurement strategies are implemented in line with local food production and consumption patterns. (…)