Evolução da aquisição de alimentos orgânicos no Brasil entre os anos 2008 e 2018: Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares – POF. 2023

Abstract

Organic food production has grown in the last two decades in many countries around the world, Brazil showed a 19% growth in production between 2010 and 2018. In parallel, the Brazilian market also followed the pace of growth and increased sales volume of these products. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the evolution of the acquisition of organic food between the years 2008 and 2018. Data on the acquisition of organic food obtained from the Family Budget Survey (POF) collected in the years 2008-2009 and 2017-2018, referring to the Questionnaire of collective acquisition, which recorded information regarding the monetary acquisition of food and beverages intended for home consumption collected through a collective acquisition diary applied for seven days. The sampling unit used was the family. POF 2008 was made up of 55,970 households and 58,039 in 2018. The means (grams) and percentages of organic food acquisition were calculated in each sample, stratified by the sociodemographic characteristics of the reference person in the family, including sex, age, education, family income, region of the country, urban and rural areas, in addition to the means and the percentages of acquisition of food groups (meat, dairy products, rice, beans, fruits and vegetables) stratified by education and family income. The averages and percentages of organic food acquisition in 2008 and 2018 were 29.16g (CI: 24.19-34.13; 1.61%) and 26.42g (CI: 20.76-32.08; 1.53%), respectively. In 2008-2009, the means and percentages were higher in households where the reference person was female [29.38g (CI: 20.28 - 38.48); 1.72%] and over 50 years old [34.34g (CI: 26.55-42.14); 1.8%], while in 2017-2018 the means were higher in households whose reference person was male [30.49g (CI: 22.07-38.91); 1.64%] and were aged between 30 and 50 years [29.42g (CI:19.04-39.83; 1.45%]. In both surveys, the means and percentages of acquisition were higher in households whose reference person had more than 13 years of education [2008/2009:75.89g(IC:53.63-98.43); 4.71%; 2017/2018:71.47g (IC:0.53-90 .40); 3.90%] and whose family had an income of more than 5 minimum wages per capita [2008/2009:76.00g(IC:46.08-105.93); 4.46%; [ 2017/2018:60.37g(IC:44.90-75.83); 3.26. It could be concluded that there was no change in the acquisition of organic food in the period. Families with higher income and whose reference person had higher education levels showed greater acquisition of organic foods.