Luciana Virginia Mario Bernardo

Divulgação de informações sociais e ambientais por cooperativas agrícolas brasileiras

The concern of society with social and environmental aspects brought new features to organizations. Companies need to have environmental policies and through planning provide the realization of activities that address these issues. In order to meet the needs of stakeholders, organizations publish information on their social and environmental practices in reports and virtual environments. Among the companies’ formats, cooperatives grow in Brazil and belong to the group of the largest exporters of the country. Given these characteristics, the paper aims to identify the document used to divulge environmental information and what elements make up these publications, in the websites of cooperatives that export. We used the documentary analysis of publications made in the websites of eight cooperatives and the variables of Standard Brazilian Accounting No. 15. We noticed that five of these disclose in different volumes of information and use resources like websites, specific report and inclusion in management reports. However publications on the subject must be improved to better inform users of this information. So there will be better quality in publications and facilitate the reading and interpretation of these data become public society when released, especially in virtual environments to which access to information becomes easier.

A relação de comercialização entre as unidades estaduais escolares urbanas de dourados e os produtores da agricultura familiar

The acquisition of school lunches in Mato Grosso do Sul, part of the obligations of managers , it has its own orientation as federal law , in which 30 % of the resources should be allocated to purchasing products coming from family farming. This public policy is intended to assist the permanence of individuals in the rural environment and at the same time provide that basic education has better nutrition in relation to nutritional aspects. The paper aims to investigate the perception of urban state schools of the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, on the development of the School Feeding Program (PNAE), as compared to marketing. To collect the data, structured questionnaires were used, composed of open and closed questions, applied to 76% of urban state schools. Were identified difficulty in marketing due to low demand for family farmers in the period from public call, but when a family farmer starts marketing activities, tends to remain constant, because it meets the needs of the school and there is no other producers seeking school units. In this scenario, we observe the need for action by public agencies or educational institutions that provide training to farmers on marketing practices.

A PERCEPTION ON MILK PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT IN GOLDEN GLORY OF CITY

This article aims to analyze the impact of management, cooperation and public policies applied to the dairy sector in the glory of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul Milk production has the function of generating income to farmers and to feed the local economic system, which also includes the fix small producers in the field. So put it, for the study and the construction of the article was prepared a questionnaire intended to collect data that would enable discussion and analysis of results. As the theoretical basis, it discusses the importance of the dairy supply chain for the performance of South Mato Grosso state agribusiness, the need for public policies for the qualification and production management, and the need for qualification of the workforce of small producers. Furthermore, the text addresses the cooperatives contribution to the competitive maintenance of small producers in the face of market competition requirements.