This thesis investigates the cultural politics of taste in contemporary food media of Hong Kong through the lens of foodie stylistics on Instagram. By bearing on the semiotic theory and analysis by Roland Barthes, this research seeks to closely examine the mythmaking of taste in foodie criticism--the food and restaurant review written by foodies on social media platform. The theory will be used to spell out the layered meaning of foodie criticism: a linguistic depiction of food, visual stylistic of writing about taste, tactics of gaining voice of authority by foodie critics and their intention of writing. Considering taste as a cultural and social construct, the present research examines the pivotal role of foodie critics as mythmakers that render and stylize taste on Instagram, which mythologizes the intention of writing and complicates how voice of authority can be accumulated and how monopolized power of food media corporate can be further expanded invisibly. Through semiotic analysis, how taste is represented and informed by the mythmaker linguistically, how food trends are set stylistically to attract and affect the audience, as well as how attraction accumulates the voice of authority and engenders problems of self-branding, commercialization and collusion will become apparent. Finally, the findings of this pilot research of Hong Kong foodies will contribute to the understanding of cultural politics of contemporary food criticism media in the social media era.

Ming, Sze Chai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-140). / Abstracts in English and Chinese, some text in appendix also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT / TABLE OF CONTENTS / LIST OF FIGURES / LIST OF TABLES / LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions and Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Significance --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Research Area --- p.4 / Chapter 1.5 --- Thesis Outline --- p.6 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA AFTER 1979 / Chapter 2.1 --- Urban Development before 1978 --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Two Fundamental Issues of Urban Transformation in China --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- Major Transformation in the Post-Reform China --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The Emergence of the Market --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Decentralization --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Globalization --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- A New Form of Government Behaviour: Growth Coalitions --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.5 --- Interaction between Central and Local Government --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.6 --- Interaction among Local Governments --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.7 --- Changes in the Social-Cultural Environment --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4 --- Previous Studies on Kunshan --- p.27 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.29 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGN / Chapter 3.1 --- Research Objectives --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2 --- Conceptual Framework: System Approach --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Components and Operation of a System --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2.1.1 --- Inputs --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2.1.2 --- Processes --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1.3 --- Outputs --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1.4 --- Feedback --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3 --- Research Framework and Design --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Case Study --- p.40 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Documentary and Data Analysis --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Interviews --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Fieldwork --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Limitations --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.44 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- OVERVIEW OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN KUNSHAN / Chapter 4.1 --- Local Development Conditions --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2 --- Economy --- p.47 / Chapter 4.3 --- Population --- p.52 / Chapter 4.4 --- "Housing Conditions, Living Conditions and Education" --- p.54 / Chapter 4.5 --- Infrastructure --- p.55 / Chapter 4.6 --- Land --- p.56 / Chapter 4.7 --- Landscape --- p.57 / Chapter 4.8 --- Spatial Dimensions of Urban Development --- p.61 / Chapter 4.9 --- Summary --- p.66 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- ROLE AND INTERACTION OF PLAYERS IN THE PROCESS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT / Chapter 5.1 --- "Role of Government, Business Sector and Civil Society in Urban Development" --- p.67 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Government --- p.68 / Chapter 5.1.1.1 --- Recognizing and Realizing the Locational Advantage --- p.68 / Chapter 5.1.1.2 --- Improving the Quality of Life --- p.70 / Chapter 5.1.1.3 --- Maintaining Social Harmony --- p.70 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Business Sector --- p.71 / Chapter 5.1.2.1 --- Propelling Economic Growth --- p.72 / Chapter 5.1.2.2 --- Facilitating Economic Restructuring --- p.73 / Chapter 5.1.2.3 --- Enriching Social Life --- p.74 / Chapter 5.1.2.4 --- Helping Kunshan Catch up and Align Itself with Modem Cities --- p.75 / Chapter 5.1.2.5 --- Maintaining Social Harmony --- p.77 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Civil Society --- p.78 / Chapter 5.2 --- Economic Interaction --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Pro-growth Coalitions between Government and the Business Sector --- p.81 / Chapter 5.2.1.1 --- The 1980s: The Period of Sowing --- p.81 / Chapter 5.2.1.2 --- The Early to Mid 1990s: The Period of Active Promotion --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2.1.3 --- The Late 1990s to 2007: The Emergence of a Coalition --- p.84 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Interaction within the Business Sector --- p.88 / Chapter 5.2.2.1 --- Interaction between the Manufacturing and Service Sectors --- p.88 / Chapter 5.2.2.2 --- Interaction within the Service Sector --- p.89 / Chapter 5.3 --- Social Interaction --- p.91 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Within Companies --- p.91 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Among Companies --- p.93 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.96 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX --- THE IMPACT OF TAIWANESE ON URBAN CULTURE: THE CASE OF FOOD CULTURE / Chapter 6.1 --- Representation and Implication of the Nickname “Little Taipei´ح --- p.99 / Chapter 6.2 --- Four Case Studies of Food Shops in Kunshan --- p.100 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Restaurant A - Traditional Taiwanese Food Shop --- p.101 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Restaurant B - A Taiwanese International Catering Group --- p.105 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Restaurant C ´ؤ A General Local Food Shop --- p.109 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Restaurant D ´ؤ Ethnic Food Shop --- p.111 / Chapter 6.3 --- Analysis of the Food Culture in Kunshan --- p.114 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Taiwanese Food is Everywhere --- p.115 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Mainlanders and Taiwanese Interaction --- p.116 / Chapter 6.4 --- “Little Taipei´ح - How Far does It Go? --- p.117 / Chapter 6.5 --- Spatial Pattern of the Food Shops --- p.120 / Chapter 6.6 --- Summary --- p.123 / Chapter CHAPTER SEVEN --- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION / Chapter 7.1 --- Major Findings and Discussion --- p.124 / Chapter 7.2 --- Future Studies --- p.130 / BIBLIOGRAPHY / APPENDIX / Appendix One Questions to Mainlanders (in English) / Appendix Two Questions to Mainlanders (in Chinese) / Appendix Three Questions to Taiwanese (in English) / Appendix Four Questions to Taiwanese (in Chinese) / Appendix Five List of Interviewees / Appendix Six Standard of Well-off Society in Jiangsu Province

Community cookbooks operate through a rhetoric of place as ways of thinking about belonging and influencing communal identities. They reveal much about a community, including the sharing of memories and tradition, geographical identification, and representation of socio-cultural hierarchies and habits. For that reason, this paper advances the claim that the discourse and visuality in community cookbooks, specifically the cookbooks 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, Charleston Receipts, and Charleston Receipts Repeats published during the height of a renaissance in Southern literature, influenced the identity of “Southerness” which, taken in conjunction with place, space, and time has resulted in a unification of the changing American South. Using Carolyn Miller’s notions of genre criticism on the basis of genres as social movements, community cookbooks qualify for the genre label of domestic literature in terms of content and rhetorical influence. To prove my claim, the use of images, recipes, and folklore within the pages are analyzed with five a posteriori themes that discuss relations between a sense of place and its foodways. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

The present study explored whether African American women's level of dietary fat intake could be predicted by the variables of food preferences and preparation methods, support for healthy eating from family and friends, attitudes toward health, and acculturation. The present study also explored whether African American women's level of dietary fat intake could be predicted by the variables of food preferences and preparation methods, support for healthy eating from family and friends, and attitudes toward health, as moderated by acculturation.Information was obtained from five hundred and nintey nine African American females between the ages of eighteen and forty four. The women were recruited from a Midwestern univeristy, an undergraduate and graduate chapter of an African American sorority, two African American professional organizations, and through the snowball method. Particpants completed a Demographic Questionnaire, The Eating Behavior Patterns Questionnaire, The African American Acculturation Scale Short Form, The Health Attitudes Scale, The Social Support Scale, and The Eating Patterns Subscale on the Eating Habits Questionnaire. The data was collected via hardcopy and InQsit, an online survey program.Numerous preliminary tests were run to screen the data for outliers, linearity, and multicollinearity. Then, two forced entry multiple regressions were performed. In the first analysis, the overall model was a significant predictor of dietary fat intake. African American women's preferred foods, positive and negative support from friends, overallconcern for health, and intentions to adopt positive health practices are significant predictors of their level of dietary fat intake. In fact, these variables acccounted for almost half of the amount of variance in dietary fat intake. The second model was not significant and acculturation was not a significant predictor or moderator of dietary fat intake. Although acculturation was proven to be influential to dietary behaviors in African Americans in previous literature, the findings were not confirmed in this study.Multiple possibilies may explain the lack of significant findings between level of acculturation and dietary fat intake. The women in the current study were of a higher educational and income status than women in previous studies indicating significant findings. This difference in education and income, among other factors, may account for the difference in significant findings. The information gained in this study can be used to develop pschoeducational and treatment programs aimed at helping African American women prevent or treat health problems associated with poor eating habits. Several research implications are also noted. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

This thesis presents a multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnography of the processes and practices through which producers attempt to designate food as heritage. Grounded in cultural geography, it adopts a cultural economy approach to addressing concerns within agro-food studies by joining in conversation notions of heritage, place-making and time. By underlining the intrinsic relation between articulations of time and constructions of place, this thesis further maps the alternative geographies of food. It engages with three overarching questions, drawing on research conducted within two heritage-based food initiatives in Mexico and Scotland, both linked to the Slow Food movement. These produce, respectively, a traditional sweet called pinole and 'real' bread. The thesis asks: what objectives are pursued through the heritagisation of food whereby various actors strategically coin foods as heritage? How is time articulated in the discourse of heritage food, and how do heritage food networks and producers understand time as a component of food quality? Finally, what senses of place emerge from the various uses of time as a quality in global, translocal and local heritage food discourses? This thesis explores Slow Food's heritage qualification scheme and the ensuing commodification of heritage food, as well as translocal networks, and practices of 'slow' production. Through empirical engagements it argues that the qualification of heritage foods is multifunctional and that various articulations of time enable small-scale producers to engage with a plethora of socio-economic and political issues. Numerous and at times conflicting constructions of place surface from the discourses woven around these two heritage products and problematise identity formation and narratives of the past linked to producers and communities. This thesis concludes that the constructions of place associated with heritage foods depend not only upon the authority and circumstances of actors articulating a heritage discourse, but also on the scale of the dissemination of that discourse, and on the notions and understandings of time associated with heritage and place.

Ma Fung-shan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-114). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter CHAPTER 1: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / The Research Problem --- p.2 / Scope of Study --- p.3 / What is Western Food? --- p.3 / Literature Review --- p.4 / Anthropology and Food --- p.4 / Globalization and Consumption --- p.7 / China and Global Consumerism --- p.10 / "Food, Globalization and Consumption: Eating Western Food in Guangzhou" --- p.12 / Methodology --- p.13 / My Position in the Restaurant --- p.73 / Participant Observation --- p.75 / Interviews --- p.77 / Significance of the Research --- p.18 / Structure of the Thesis --- p.19 / Chapter CHAPTER 2: --- "GUANGZHOU, WESTERN RESTAURANTS AND LONG ISLAND CAFE" --- p.21 / The City of Guangzhou --- p.22 / Historical Background --- p.22 / Economic Reforms after 1978 --- p.22 / Guangzhou and Hong Kong --- p.23 / Eating in Guangzhou --- p.25 / A Brief History of Western Food and Western restaurants in Guangzhou --- p.26 / Taai Pihng Gun (太平館) --- p.27 / The Appearance of Five-star Hotels --- p.28 / "The Appearance and Growth of Bars, Karaokes and Nightclubs in Late 1980's" --- p.30 / The Appearance of Western Chain Restaurants --- p.31 / From Taai Pihng Gun to Long Island Cafe : Implications from History --- p.32 / Western Food in relation to Other Kinds of Cuisine --- p.33 / Chinese Restaurants (酒家/酒樓/菜館) --- p.33 / Western Restaurants (西餐廳） --- p.36 / Specialized Restaurants (特色餐廳） --- p.39 / Brief History and Development of Long Island Cafe --- p.41 / Western Restaurant: a Business Decision --- p.42 / The First Three Years --- p.44 / The Critical Turn and Later Developments --- p.45 / Daily Management and Structure of Long Island Cafe --- p.47 / The Hierarchical Ladder of the Workers --- p.48 / Chapter CHAPTER 3: --- PRODUCTION OF WESTERN FOOD --- p.51 / Image of the Restaurant --- p.51 / A Westernized Name --- p.51 / Interior Decoration of the Branches --- p.52 / Mass Media --- p.52 / Food Served in the Restaurant --- p.55 / Evolution of Menu and Analysis of the Present Menu --- p.55 / Studying the Menus: Changes Throughout the Years --- p.56 / Coffee & Salad --- p.68 / Limitation in Food Development --- p.73 / Influences from Hong Kong --- p.75 / The Paradox of Authenticity --- p.77 / Invention and Localization --- p.79 / Chapter CHAPTER 4: --- CONSUMPTION OF WESTERN FOOD --- p.81 / Customer Characteristics --- p.81 / Target Customers --- p.81 / Frequent & Infrequent Customers --- p.82 / Customer Age Groups --- p.85 / Rituals of Eating --- p.87 / Eating Western Food： Different Meaning to Different Customers --- p.92 / A Western Food Ideal? --- p.92 / Differences between Frequent and Infrequent Customers --- p.93 / "same Restaurant, Different Expectations" --- p.94 / The Pursuit of Global / Western Ideas --- p.95 / Western Food: an Imagined Cuisine --- p.97 / Distinction： Middle-Class Identity and Consumption --- p.99 / Studying Class Structure in China --- p.99 / Who comprises the Middle-Class? --- p.99 / Middle-class Identity and Consumption --- p.102 / Chapter CHAPTER 5: --- CONCLUSION --- p.105 / REFERENCES --- p.110

Chan Shuk Fun Sophie. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 77). / Thesis statement also in Chinese. / Introduction _ 5 --- p._ 5 / Chapter Section I --- Research / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Background _ 8 --- p._ 8 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Site Analysis _ 14 --- p._ 14 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Design Strategy _ 30 --- p._ 30 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Programmatic Study _ 34 --- p._ 34 / Chapter Section II --- Exploration / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Space- programmes _ 50 --- p._ 50 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Formal Expression _ 52 --- p._ 52 / Chapter Section III --- Design Development / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Concept _ 54 --- p._ 54 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Design Development _ 56 --- p._ 56 / Chapter Chapter 9 --- Architectural System _ 64 --- p._ 64 / Chapter Chapter 10 --- Gallery _ 72 --- p._ 72 / Bibliography _ 77 --- p._ 77

Previous research indicates that women are judged on the amount of food eaten and that both men and women are judged on the type of food eaten. This study is an attempt to determine whether meal size or type predominantly accounts for these findings on the variables of masculinity, femininity, attractiveness, thinness, fitness, and likability. Physical activity was also included to determine its effect on these variable. Subjects used were 313 undergraduate students. Results indicate that meal type is more influential than meal size and that physical activity significantly influences judgements of others. The results are discussed in terms of future research and relatedness to socio-cultural theories of eating disorders.

A presente pesquisa emerge da aproximação e incursão acerca das discussões sobre as políticas públicas e em especial o Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos – PAA e sua operacionalização na Terra Indígena Xapecó (TIX), no Município de Ipuaçu/SC. A opção da pesquisa com foco no Programa PAA e a Ação de Distribuição de Alimentos na TIX, deveu-se a observação dos estudos voltados em sua maioria, às organizações, cooperativas, associações e sistemas de produções voltados à agricultura familiar em áreas que não envolvem diretamente o índio ou ao território indígena. Partindo da realidade da TIX e ao tomar esta Política Pública, como objeto deste estudo analisou-se a execução do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos – PAA e a ação de distribuição de alimentos, e sua representação no fortalecimento da autonomia do povo indígena na Terra Indígena Xapecó/SC, no período de 2009 a 2012. Neste contexto, buscou-se compreender e investigar a forma de operacionalização do PAA e a Ação de distribuição de alimentos, e se os mesmos implementam as estratégias de Autonomia e Protagonismo, previstas na Lei nº 10.696/2003, no Município de Ipuaçu/SC. Para fins de contextualização, o objeto de estudo, está sustentado na área das políticas públicas redistributivas, e sua relação com o desenvolvimento. Para tanto, o percurso teórico teve inicialmente a busca pela compreensão do contexto das políticas públicas e sociais e sua relação com o desenvolvimento, ancoradas principalmente nos estudos de Leff, Iamamoto, Sachs, Teixeira, Yasbek, Veiga. A metodologia deste trabalho envolve o procedimento de estudo de caso qualitativo de pesquisa, empregando-se técnicas de coleta de dados primários e secundários na investigação do problema em estudo, que utilizou os seguintes instrumentos de pesquisa para atingir os objetivos: Análise de conteúdo documental, revisão de literatura, relatos verbais por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e análise dos dados coletados. Analisando a criação de ações da política pública que fomentem a produção de alimentos para o abastecimento no país, buscou-se neste trabalho apresentar algumas reflexões acerca da experiência do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) e a Ação de Distribuição de Alimentos na Terra Indígena Xapecó, no Município de Ipuaçu/SC. O estudo do desempenho do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos para o fortalecimento da agricultura familiar na TIX possibilitou compreender os impactos sobre o modo de vida das famílias indígenas, e o papel da Ação de distribuição de alimentos na garantia de uma alimentação saudável. Pode-se concluir que o PAA cumpriu seu papel no fortalecimento da agricultura familiar, e no seu desenvolvimento sustentável. Este que se coloca para os povos indígenas hoje como sendo um aliado através da superação dos desafios e possibilidades de estratégias que se colocam na atualidade para esta necessária mudança modo de produção e consumo. Contudo, constatou-se também os principais pontos negativos relativos à esta política e a efetiva ação de distribuição de alimentos, através dos dados qualitativos contidos nas entrevistas realizadas. Portanto, é importante considerar o protagonismo dos usuários e estimular a autonomia para que os serviços não sejam apenas para atender demandas emergentes, mas, sim, que sirvam para transformar a vidas dos sujeitos. É neste contexto que os indígenas se encontram hoje, procurando criar alternativas de desenvolvimento que garantam sua sobrevivência, sem abandonar seus valores tradicionais. / This research emerges from the approach and incursions of the discussions on public policy and in particular the Food Acquisition Program - PAA and its implementation in Indigenous Xapecó (TIX), in the city of Ipuaçu / SC. The search option focusing on PAA Program and the Food Distribution in Action TIX, was due to the observation of mostly focused studies, organizations, cooperatives, associations and production systems geared to family farming in areas that do not involve directly the Indian or the indigenous territory. Starting from the reality of TIX and take this public policy, as the object of this study analyzed the implementation of the Food Acquisition Program - PAA and the food distribution action, and their representation in strengthening the autonomy of the indigenous people in the Indigenous Land Xapecó / SC, from 2009 to 2012. In this context, we sought to understand and investigate how to operationalize the PAA and the food distribution action, and whether they implement the strategies of autonomy and protagonism, provided by Law No. 10,696 / 2003 in the city of Ipuaçu / SC. For context purposes, the object of study, is supported in the area of redistributive policies, and its relationship with development. Therefore, the theoretical route initially had the quest for understanding the context of public and social policies and their relationship to the development, anchored mainly in studies of Leff, Iamamoto, Sachs, Teixeira, Yasbek. The methodology of this work involves the qualitative case study research procedure, using techniques of collecting primary and secondary data on the problem of the research study, which used the following search tools for achieving the objectives: document content analysis, literature review, verbal reports through semi-structured interviews and analysis of the collected data. Analyzing the creation of public policy actions that promote the production of food for the supply in the country, aimed to present this work to reflect on the experience of the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the Food Distribution Action in Indigenous Land Xapecó in the city of Ipuaçu / SC. The performance study of the Food Acquisition Program for the strengthening of family farming in TIX possible to understand the impacts on the livelihoods of indigenous families, and the role of food distribution action in ensuring a healthy diet. It can be concluded that the PAA fulfill its role in strengthening family agriculture, and sustainable development. This posed for indigenous peoples today as an ally by overcoming challenges and possibilities strategies facing today for this necessary change mode of production and consumption. However, also found up the main negative points for this policy and the effective food distribution action, through qualitative data contained in the interviews. Therefore, it is important to consider the role of users and encouraging autonomy so that services are not only to meet emerging demands, but rather that serve to transform the lives of the subjects. It is in this context that the indigenous are now seeking to create development alternatives to ensure their survival, without abandoning their traditional values.

A presente pesquisa emerge da aproximação e incursão acerca das discussões sobre as políticas públicas e em especial o Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos – PAA e sua operacionalização na Terra Indígena Xapecó (TIX), no Município de Ipuaçu/SC. A opção da pesquisa com foco no Programa PAA e a Ação de Distribuição de Alimentos na TIX, deveu-se a observação dos estudos voltados em sua maioria, às organizações, cooperativas, associações e sistemas de produções voltados à agricultura familiar em áreas que não envolvem diretamente o índio ou ao território indígena. Partindo da realidade da TIX e ao tomar esta Política Pública, como objeto deste estudo analisou-se a execução do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos – PAA e a ação de distribuição de alimentos, e sua representação no fortalecimento da autonomia do povo indígena na Terra Indígena Xapecó/SC, no período de 2009 a 2012. Neste contexto, buscou-se compreender e investigar a forma de operacionalização do PAA e a Ação de distribuição de alimentos, e se os mesmos implementam as estratégias de Autonomia e Protagonismo, previstas na Lei nº 10.696/2003, no Município de Ipuaçu/SC. Para fins de contextualização, o objeto de estudo, está sustentado na área das políticas públicas redistributivas, e sua relação com o desenvolvimento. Para tanto, o percurso teórico teve inicialmente a busca pela compreensão do contexto das políticas públicas e sociais e sua relação com o desenvolvimento, ancoradas principalmente nos estudos de Leff, Iamamoto, Sachs, Teixeira, Yasbek, Veiga. A metodologia deste trabalho envolve o procedimento de estudo de caso qualitativo de pesquisa, empregando-se técnicas de coleta de dados primários e secundários na investigação do problema em estudo, que utilizou os seguintes instrumentos de pesquisa para atingir os objetivos: Análise de conteúdo documental, revisão de literatura, relatos verbais por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e análise dos dados coletados. Analisando a criação de ações da política pública que fomentem a produção de alimentos para o abastecimento no país, buscou-se neste trabalho apresentar algumas reflexões acerca da experiência do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) e a Ação de Distribuição de Alimentos na Terra Indígena Xapecó, no Município de Ipuaçu/SC. O estudo do desempenho do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos para o fortalecimento da agricultura familiar na TIX possibilitou compreender os impactos sobre o modo de vida das famílias indígenas, e o papel da Ação de distribuição de alimentos na garantia de uma alimentação saudável. Pode-se concluir que o PAA cumpriu seu papel no fortalecimento da agricultura familiar, e no seu desenvolvimento sustentável. Este que se coloca para os povos indígenas hoje como sendo um aliado através da superação dos desafios e possibilidades de estratégias que se colocam na atualidade para esta necessária mudança modo de produção e consumo. Contudo, constatou-se também os principais pontos negativos relativos à esta política e a efetiva ação de distribuição de alimentos, através dos dados qualitativos contidos nas entrevistas realizadas. Portanto, é importante considerar o protagonismo dos usuários e estimular a autonomia para que os serviços não sejam apenas para atender demandas emergentes, mas, sim, que sirvam para transformar a vidas dos sujeitos. É neste contexto que os indígenas se encontram hoje, procurando criar alternativas de desenvolvimento que garantam sua sobrevivência, sem abandonar seus valores tradicionais. / This research emerges from the approach and incursions of the discussions on public policy and in particular the Food Acquisition Program - PAA and its implementation in Indigenous Xapecó (TIX), in the city of Ipuaçu / SC. The search option focusing on PAA Program and the Food Distribution in Action TIX, was due to the observation of mostly focused studies, organizations, cooperatives, associations and production systems geared to family farming in areas that do not involve directly the Indian or the indigenous territory. Starting from the reality of TIX and take this public policy, as the object of this study analyzed the implementation of the Food Acquisition Program - PAA and the food distribution action, and their representation in strengthening the autonomy of the indigenous people in the Indigenous Land Xapecó / SC, from 2009 to 2012. In this context, we sought to understand and investigate how to operationalize the PAA and the food distribution action, and whether they implement the strategies of autonomy and protagonism, provided by Law No. 10,696 / 2003 in the city of Ipuaçu / SC. For context purposes, the object of study, is supported in the area of redistributive policies, and its relationship with development. Therefore, the theoretical route initially had the quest for understanding the context of public and social policies and their relationship to the development, anchored mainly in studies of Leff, Iamamoto, Sachs, Teixeira, Yasbek. The methodology of this work involves the qualitative case study research procedure, using techniques of collecting primary and secondary data on the problem of the research study, which used the following search tools for achieving the objectives: document content analysis, literature review, verbal reports through semi-structured interviews and analysis of the collected data. Analyzing the creation of public policy actions that promote the production of food for the supply in the country, aimed to present this work to reflect on the experience of the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the Food Distribution Action in Indigenous Land Xapecó in the city of Ipuaçu / SC. The performance study of the Food Acquisition Program for the strengthening of family farming in TIX possible to understand the impacts on the livelihoods of indigenous families, and the role of food distribution action in ensuring a healthy diet. It can be concluded that the PAA fulfill its role in strengthening family agriculture, and sustainable development. This posed for indigenous peoples today as an ally by overcoming challenges and possibilities strategies facing today for this necessary change mode of production and consumption. However, also found up the main negative points for this policy and the effective food distribution action, through qualitative data contained in the interviews. Therefore, it is important to consider the role of users and encouraging autonomy so that services are not only to meet emerging demands, but rather that serve to transform the lives of the subjects. It is in this context that the indigenous are now seeking to create development alternatives to ensure their survival, without abandoning their traditional values.