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The objective of this paper is to study changes in the fruit and vegetable distribution system in Brazil in previous years and the role that could be played by Public Supply Centres. Food supply is essential for securing access to and availability of food in cities. The paper will consider problems concerning the CEASA since the disruption of the National Supply Centres System (SINAC), and those regarding globalisation in the food industry. The paper was written in 2010 based on gathered secondary data and semi-structured interviews conducted on important actors in the distribution of fruits and vegetables. As one of the conclusions, it states that there is still room for a public role in food supply focused on supply centres and based on the principles of Food Security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In face the increasingly valuation of the traditional agro-foods products and the more and more social and economic vulnerability in the Latin-American rural localities, there is one trend to vertical integration of the production through agro-industrialization in the family farm. The central objective of this paper is to point and to analyze the importance of the family agroindustries in the dynamic of development of Brazilian rural areas, specially the agro-industries trajectories in the South of country. This study it is based in common indicators to show the importance of small agro-industries for the process of improvement of family farms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]