Orientador: Paulo Roberto Raposo Alentejano / Resumo: Este estudo faz uma relação entre os acontecimentos históricos, passando pelo processo migratório das famílias sem-terra capixabas, os projetos de modernização da agricultura no território norte do Espírito Santo e o estudo das políticas públicas, com o foco no Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA). Para delimitação da pesquisa foram escolhidas as famílias do Assentamento Nova Conquista, no município de Pinheiros, no Espírito Santo. O trabalho teve como objetivo caracterizar as políticas públicas para o campo, avaliando os impactos do PAA, a partir do ponto de vista social e econômico, identificando os avanços, as amarras e as possibilidades de superação no processo de resistência, bem como a continuidade do programa dentro da conjuntura atual. Como metodologia, foram utilizadas algumas obras para subsidiar as fundamentações teóricas da elaboração, pesquisa documental e participante, utilizando entrevistas semiestruturadas, dados estatísticos, assim como, a coleta de dados e estudo de campo. Também, se somaram a este trabalho a elaboração de tabelas, planilhas e gráficos para melhor visualização e sistematização na análise da pesquisa. / Abstract: This research makes a relation among the historical events happening through the migratory process of the landless “capixaba” families, as well as the agricultural modernization projects in the north of Espírito Santo and the publ ic policies study focused on the PAA (Food Acquisition Program). The families from Nova Conquista settlement, in the municipality of Pinheiros, state of Espírito Santo, were choosen as a delimitation for this research. The objective of this study was to characterize the public policies for the field, evaluating the impacts of the PAA, from the social and economic point of view, identifying the advances, the moorings and the possibilities of overcoming in the resistance process, as well as the continuity of the within the current context. The methodology used some works to support the theoretical basis, documentary and participatory research according to semi-structured interviews, statistical data, data collect and field study. This work also adds tables, spreadsheets and graphics for analizing and organizing information to this research. / Mestre

The transnationalisation of economic relations and the emergence of supranational sites of policy-making and governance have been of concern both to 'affected publics' subject to the remote decisionmaking that such developments entail (and who have mobilised extensively to demonstrate their opposition to these bodies), and scholars keen to locate the possibilities for a democratic politics in the context of the state's subsequent diminishment (O'Brien et al., 2000; Scholte, 2001; Patomäki and Teivainen, 2004; Rittberger et al., 2008). One such group of scholars are public sphere theorists, who, taking up an ongoing concern with the conditions for, and criteria of, effective democratic participation in politically authoritative policy debates, and responding to these new dynamics, have begun to define a new research agenda in search of 'transnational public spheres' (Habermas, 1989; Fraser, 1991; Fraser 2007). That is, they have begun to look to the transnational for sites in which those affected by the exercise (or, indeed, absence) of political authority at this level strive to engage that authority in policy debate. In this thesis, I argue for the existence of one such transnational public sphere, which, being both provoked and constituted by the transnational peasant and small farmers social movement La Via Campesina, promises to be institutionally realised by the recently reformed United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Identifying and exploring key dynamics relevant to the CFS's aspirations for political centrality, inclusivity, and policy debate, moreover, I lay bare the challenges that confront the attainment of this promise.