CONTEXTUALIZATION
Promoting school meals based on sustainable and socio-biodiverse products from family farming - including Indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, and other traditional peoples and communities - within public education networks in the Legal Amazon is aligned with the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), the Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), and the Amazon Fund. This strategy simultaneously contributes to the conservation and sustainable use of the ‘living forest,’ the preservation of biodiversity, and the reduction of deforestation, while strengthening sustainable value chains, increasing income generation, diversifying markets, valuing socio-biodiversity, and promoting social justice.
The increase in the quantity, quality, regularity, and diversity of sustainable and socio-biodiverse production, driven by public procurement programs, strengthens productive capacity, production structures, short supply chains, and distribution channels for family farming among these groups. Furthermore, it ensures students have access to nutritious, healthy, and culturally appropriate meals that respect local eating habits, promote food regularity, reduce food insecurity, and generate positive impacts on learning, even in the face of deficits in school infrastructure and educational quality, by aligning public network demand with the productive potential of local territories.
Given the potential to support sustainable school feeding in the Legal Amazon region and the convergence of the aforementioned public policies, the Public Call ‘Amazon at School – Healthy and Sustainable Food’ falls within the scope of a partnership between BNDES and the National Fund for Education Development (FNDE), the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA), the Ministry of Social Development, Family and Fight Against Hunger (MDS), and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) to implement joint actions that promote school meals sourced from family farming, including Indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, and other traditional peoples and communities, based on sustainability and socio-biodiversity.
Two proposals were selected for the state of Pará and one for each of the other states in the Legal Amazon, totaling ten proposals aimed at promoting integrated actions to strengthen sustainable and socio-biodiverse food production by family farming and traditional peoples and communities, as well as the acquisition of such foods for school meals in public education networks in the Legal Amazon. The project implemented by FAS was selected under the Public Call for the Amazonas territory.
THE PROJECT
The project aims to support the integrated strengthening of sustainable food production by family farming - including that originating from Indigenous Peoples and other Traditional Peoples and Communities - as well as the acquisition and consumption of such foods for school meals in public education networks in the state of Amazonas.
Below is a summary table:
Deliverables (Products and Services)
- Detailed diagnosis on PNAE and family farmers in the territory
- Mobilization, communication, engagement, and knowledge dissemination on PNAE; Learning Report
- Strengthening governance and social control over PNAE involving municipal bodies
- Capacity building and technical support for family farming
- Strengthening productive infrastructure for family farming
- Capacity building and technical support for public education networks
- Strengthening infrastructure of public education networks
Expected Results
- Increased productive capacity of family farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and other Traditional Peoples and Communities
- Strengthened local organizations
- Expanded commercialization of products
- Increased acquisition of local and healthy foods from family farming, improving the quality of school meals
- School network sensitized and equipped with applied knowledge on the requirements and procedures for acquiring products from family farming
- Strengthened synergistic environment for the operationalization of PNAE
- Enhanced citizen and food awareness in food security and school forums
- Increased and strengthened participation of women and youth in PNAE
INTERVENTION LOGIC
This project falls under the “Sustainable Production” (1) and “scientific and technological development” (4) component of the logical framework of the Amazon Fund.
