O Programa Mais Gestão como interface de conhecimento e comercialização na PNAPO - Brasil

The main mechanisms for incentive and diffusion of agroecology are the National Policy onAgroecology and Organic Production and its National Plan (PLANAPO). Among the initiativesincluded in the Plan, technical assistance, although not fully met, was subject of importantinnovations. The present study reports the analysis of the More Management Program (PMG)as an instrument of this policy. PMG (associated with goal 14 of PLANAPO 2013-15) contributedthrough its differentiated methodology to improve the management of family farmers’cooperatives and promote their access to institutional markets. It is concluded that PMG wasan important innovation, however, the reduction in the contribution of resources to its actionsbetween 2013-2015 has led to a decline in the assistance to cooperatives and, consequently,in the assistance of public policies regarding government purchases from family farmers, a factaggravated by the discontinuity of the Brazilian government.