Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the perceptions of directors of state schools in Campo Grande, MS, about the National School Feeding Program (NSFP) law and about products purchased from family farming. The case of Campo Grande’s state schools was analyzed from the approach of Economic Sociology, using the concept of embeddedness. To achieve the goal, a semi-structured interview guide was formulated. A total of 73 directors from Campo Grande’s state schools were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed by the content analysis method through thematic categorical analysis. Twenty-four were associated with negative perceptions to NSFP’s law, giving rise to the construction of five major categories: Bureaucracy, Lack of Organization of Family Farming, Government Negligence, The Values Passed and Others. Positively there were 14 perceptions associated to NSFP’s law that gave rise to the construction of four major categories: Administrative Decentralization, Quality, Economically Positive and Socially Positive. It shows the predominance of negative perceptions of the NSFP’ law and that state schools of Campo Grande have difficulties to comply with the law in its entirety, pointing out that the objectives of the law in relation to school executions are still far from being achieved.
Keywords
NSFP; family farm; institutional market; school feeding