摘要：The food purchase programme (PAA) is a public policy focused on the commercialization of agricultural products implemented in the year 2003 in Brazil. This paper aimed to analyze the efficiency in the use of resources of the PAA in with Simultaneous Donation mode (CDS-PAA) by family farmers in the Brazilian states in the year 2011, using the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) methodology. In the analysis, the number of family farmers occupied in each state in the year of 2006 and the number of family farmers participating in the CDS-PAA by state in the year 2011 were used as inputs, and as outputs the number of people who benefit from CDS-PAA by state; the quantity in kilograms (kg) of products purchased via the mode; and the value in reais (R$) of the products acquired from CDS-PAA, by state, in the year 2011. The efficiency analysis showed that the Federal District was the most efficient state in the use of resources of the CDS-PAA, while the state of Piauí, in the Northeast region, obtained the lowest efficiency. By the nature of the returns of the CDS-PAA, one could see that only 11 in 18 Brazilian states operated in optimum conditions.
