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This paper presents a case of arrangement of a network of strong social cohesion linked to local food security programs in Araraquara, a municipality in Sao Paulo state countryside and one of the pioneers in launching public policy in such a dimension. The overall objective of this work is to show the main efficiencies and institutional and organizational obstacles encountered in the core network that has been formed in that county. A key finding is that in that municipality of midsize and relevant generation of wealth for the state of São Paulo, there are small family farmers composing a network of local food security policy that has as a tool to foster the EAP (Acquisition Program Food) from the federal government. This will be demonstrated through an analysis of the characteristics of producers and the connections of the network of food safety policies.

O trabalho apresenta um caso concreto de formação de uma rede de capital social em torno da temática da segurança alimentar local. Toma como princípio que a segurança alimentar deve ser tratada de maneira ampla, de forma a abarcar não somente as condições de saúde das pessoas, de higiene dos alimentos e da autenticidade da produção, mas também a melhora das condições de renda e emprego de pequenos agricultores. Este trabalho mostra que num município paulista desenvolve-se um programa de segurança alimentar nessa amplitude, com a comercialização de produtos agrícolas em varejões populares distribuídos em pontos comerciais estratégicos. Este caso, ocorrido no centro da produção canavieira e do cinturão citrícola paulista mostra como mecanismos institucionais desenvolvidos através de políticas públicas participativas e organizações locais podem promover o desenvolvimento rural local com possibilidades de inclusão social. This paper shows a concrete case of social capital networking around of the local security food thematic. The aim of the security food should be treated in a wider mode, including not just the people health conditions, food hygiene and the authenticity of the familiar production, but the improvement of the salaries and work conditions of the small producers This work shows that a city in the São Paulo State develop a program of the security food this extent, with the commerce of agricultural products in popular fair distribute in strategic commercial points. This case, occurred in the sugar cane production region and citriculture in the São Paulo State, demonstrates that institutional mechanisms developed through publics political participates and local organizations may to promote the rural development with the possibilities of the social inclusion.