Políticas públicas voltadas para agricultura familiar: seu reflexo no desenvolvimento socioeconômico dos munícipios paranaenses

Abstract

Family farming is an extremely important segment for society, so that about 80% of all world food production is produced by family farming. In this sense, policies aimed at these producers are extremely relevant. In Brazil, the National Program for the Strengthening of Family Agriculture (PRONAF), is the most important public policy aimed at family farming, contributing to access to rural credit in a simplified and subsidized manner. PRONAF's main mission is rural development and food security, however, its effects can go further, may impact the dynamics of local well-being. Thus, the objective of this work is to evaluate the influence exerted by the Public Policy PRONAF in the socioeconomic development of the municipalities of Paraná. To accomplish this, the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method was used. which is applied in public policy impact assessments and allows comparing a group that received a certain policy (treatment group) with another group that did not receive or received a smaller amount of the intervention (control group). Through this analysis, it is possible to evaluate the performance exerted by public policy. In this research, the municipalities of the State of Paraná were analyzed that most included family farmers in PRONAF (Group of Treaties) versus the municipalities that included the least (Group of Control), investigating the effect of this insertion on the variables: Ipardes Municipal Development Index (IPDM - proxy for socioeconomic development) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per Capita (proxy for economic growth). As a corollary, initially, there was a heterogeneous spatial distribution of PRONAF resources and projects among the municipalities of Paraná, with a drop in these inversions over time. With regard to the effects of the Policy on socioeconomic development, a positive and statistically significant effect of PRONAF on IPDM was identified and also in the per capita GDP of Paraná's municipalities.