Food Acquisition Program (PAA)

The Food Acquisition Program (PAA), created by art. 19 of Law No. 10,696, of July 2, 2003, has two basic purposes: to promote access to food and encourage family farming. To achieve these two objectives, the program buys food produced by family farming, with no need for bidding, and allocates it to people in a situation of food and nutritional insecurity and to those assisted by the social assistance network, public equipment for food and nutritional security and by the public and philanthropic education network. (PT)