Abstract
The chapter analyses the ways in which Brazilian "models" of public policies for family farming are disseminated in Latin America and the Caribbean. In particular, the transfer processes of two policies are considered: public purchases of food from family farmers and rural territorial development programmes (RTD). The "receiving" countries for public procurement policies are Colombia, Haiti and Paraguay, and for RTD instruments, Argentina, El Salvador and Uruguay. The results of the research reveal a "hybridisation" of various diffusion modalities, namely: a) the public policy transfer approach; b) the transnational circulation of norms; and, c) the approach based on theories of regionalisation and regional integration, in particular regionalisation by social movements or "from below".The method combined documentary research and in-depth interviews with managers, beneficiaries and mediators of the two types of policy in the six recipient countries. The chapter is organised into three parts: the first presents the theoretical-methodological framework; the second describes and analyses the modalities of and analyses the ways in which public procurement and territorial development policies are disseminated by country; the third part presents a comparative analysis.