Dear student,

Welcome to the "The PNAE and Smallholder farming" course, from the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE) , in partnership with the Laboratory of Information Technology and Educational Media (LabTIME) of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). This is a self-taught course, so there is no guidance or orientation from tutors. You are responsible for your own learning through the study of contents and activities. To receive the certificate, you must complete the Final Evaluation.

Yours sincerely, PNAE´s coordination

Syllabus presentation

The “PNAE and Smallholder farming” course has a 40-hour workload. It intends to make the student comfortable with concepts from the National School Feeding Programme, as well as provide them with critical thinking to understand the historical creation of the Programme, the smallholder farming’s foodstuffs acquisition process and the challenges inherent to the inter-sectoral movement of public policies and institutional purchases.

The course content is divided into 4 modules, whose reading and study must be done according to the sequence, as the topics are presented following a gradual logical pattern.

Here is how the course is organized:

Content

Module 1

The Brazilian National School Feeding Programme and Food and Nutrition Security
Module goals:

To present the National School Feeding Programme, its origin, evolution and connections to Food and Nutrition Security.

Study goals:

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Understand the history behind the National School Feeding Programme;
  • Understand the importance of Food and Nutrition Security and its relationship with school feeding;
  • Identify the role of smallholder farming in the context of Food and Nutrition Security and the National School Feeding Programme.
Unit 1Knowing the Brazilian National School Feeding Programme (PNAE)

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  • Brief history of school feeding in Brazil
  • Timeline of the PNAE
  • PNAE: structure, guidelines and operation
Unit 2Food and Nutrition Security (SAN), Right to Food (DHAA) and the role of Smallholder farming in the PNAE

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  • Definition, origin and evolution
  • Connections to the PNAE
  • The role of smallholder farming in the context of Food and Nutrition Security and the PNAE
  • Legal framework: Law no. 11,947/2009 and Resolutions CD/FNDE no. 26/2013 and no. 04/2015

Module 2

Public purchases from smallholder farming
Module goals:

To promote access to technical knowledge about the rules that control public institutional purchases from smallholder farming for the PNAE.

Study goals:

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Understand the process of public purchases;
  • Realize the importance of integration between public policies and the organizations involved with acquisitions from smallholder farming;
  • Realize the importance of knowing local smallholder agriculture production.
Unit 1Public purchases from smallholder farming for the PNAE

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  • Sustainable public purchases
  • Public purchases from smallholder farming: the legislation, principles and applicability of the Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) and the Brazilian National School Feeding Programme (PNAE)
Unit 2Knowing the reality of smallholder farming

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  • Acquisition of smallholder farming foodstuffs for the PNAE: legal basis and operation
  • Recognizing actors and building partnerships
  • Mapping the production of smallholder farming

Module 3

Acquisition of smallholder farming foodstuffs for the PNAE
Module goals:

To understand each step of the smallholder farming purchase cycle for the school feeding.

Study goals:

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Understand the procedures of each preparation step for the purchase from smallholder farming;
  • Discuss sustainable public purchase strategies to promote social, economic and sustainable development;
  • Conceptualize a public call, applying it to the acquisition process of smallholder farming foodstuffs for the PNAE.
Unit 1Operation cycle of purchase from smallholder farming for the PNAE

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  • Verifying budgets
  • Working alongside actors
  • Menu elaboration: the role of nutritionists, appreciation of food culture, regional habits, smallholder farming production, agroecological and organic foods and socio-biodiversity
  • Price definition: research of price and necessary input
Unit 2Public Call

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  • Definition and legal devices
  • Public call principles, rules, characteristics and conditions
  • Public call notice: promotion and deadlines
  • Elaboration of purchase project
  • Reception of purchase project
  • Selection of purchase project

Module 4

Registration of smallholder farming acquisitions
Module goals:

To present the procedures necessary to implement the purchase from smallholder farming for the PNAE.

Study goals:

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Identify the necessary elements for the purchase from smallholder farming for school feeding.
Unit 1Purchase from smallholder farming for the PNAE

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  • Control of the smallholder farmer´s selling limit and their organizations
  • Quality control
  • Purchase control
  • Delivery of products, Smallholder Farmer´s Receipt and Payment Term

Conclusion

Course conclusion
Module goals:

To review the course modules´ target goals for information and content fixation.

Unit 1Review

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  • Control of smallholder farmer´s selling limit and their organizations

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