This Law creates, within the State of Rio de Janeiro, the State Programme for the Acquisition of Food from Family Farming, Small-scale Producers and Artisanal Fisheries (PAA). The Programme aims at promoting productive employment and income for these sectors and the continuous and priority supply to restaurants and community, collective and solidarity kitchens, under the terms of item II of art. 10 of State Law No. 8.366 of 2 April 2019. The Programme has the following objectives: encourage family farming and small agricultural producers; promote economic and social inclusion by fostering sustainable production, food processing, agro-industrialisation and income generation; encourage the consumption and appreciation of food produced by family farming; promote access to food, in the necessary quantity, quality and regularity, for people in situations of food and nutritional insecurity, from the perspective of the human right to adequate and healthy food; promote food supply, which includes government food purchases; support the formation of stocks by cooperatives and other family farming organisations.
البرازيل · 2024-10-17