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Abstract
Contemporary Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) is gaining worldwide and national prominence as it reassures itself as a
permanent factor in people and society sustainable development processes. In Campinas, the Municipal Chamber and Executive
have, through municipal legislation and regulation of the Community Vegetal-gardens Program of Campinas (CVP), signaled the
intention of bringing to the political agenda, the urban agriculture issue, since 1997. In such a context, the objective of this work is to
analyze the CVP, specifically concerning to the aspect of the management, thus subsiding possible reformulation of public policies
of UPA in the municipality. The data used was obtained through exploratory analysis and interviews during 2005 with the participation
of the program managers, besides documental sources. The analysis concluded that there is an almost total disconnection between the
CVP, education, health and social action policies.