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Food Acquisition Programme (PAA)

Start Date: 02/07/2003
End Date: N/A

Description

Brazilian federal programme that purchases food produced by family farmers and supplies it to people experiencing food and nutrition insecurity, social assistance organizations, public food and nutrition facilities, and public or philanthropic health, education and justice networks. The programme supports family farming, rural productive inclusion, income generation and access to adequate and healthy food.

Observations

The PAA was created in 2003 within the Zero Hunger strategy. It was replaced by Alimenta Brasil in 2021 and reinstated in March 2023 through Provisional Measure 1,166/2023, later confirmed by Law 14,628 of 20 July 2023 and regulated by Decree 11,802/2023. The recorded budget is the initial 2023 allocation of BRL 500,000,000 announced by MDS. USD conversion: Central Bank of Brazil PTAX selling rate on 20 July 2023, 4.7888 BRL/USD; result: USD 104,410,290.68. This amount represents the identified 2023 allocation rather than the programme's cumulative historical expenditure.

Action scope

National

Evaluated

No

Stage

Implementation- Ongoing

Temporalidad

Long-term

Number of Years

N/A

Related elements

Budget in USD

Budget in USD
$104,410,291.00
Counterpart Budget
$0.00
Total Budget
$104,410,291.00
Annual Average Budget
$104,410,291.00

Budget by year

Budget Date Budget in USD Counterpart Budget
2023-07-20 $104,410,290.68 $0.00

Institutions

Institutions Institutions rols
MDS: Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger (Brazil) Financing-investor
MDS: Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger (Brazil) Execution and operation
MDS: Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger (Brazil) Execution and operation
MDA: Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming Planning
Conab: National Supply Company Interinstitutional cooperation

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