Vivemos tempos difíceis no ano de 2015. Período em que nossas mentes são obrigadas a conviver com ideias turvas em meio ao emaranhado de notícias que reforçam o golpismo oportunista e eleitoral, a discriminação racial, a misoginia, o sexismo, o machismo, a homofobia, a culpabilização do pobre e do jovem. Vemo-nos embaralhados num turbilhão de frases de efeito que sustentam a mídia em nosso cotidiano. Convivemos com uma conjuntura que se alimenta da incerteza do futuro e da certeza da...

Among the challenges of contemporary society, the understanding of why and how women organize themselves into collective represented a password for the orientation of research work in C interfacewith extension, developed from the project “Gender Relations: Settings and reconfigurations Labour Sexual Division of Negro Women, Settled Land Reform and the Economy SoSolidarity “.The main purpose of this article is to support the understanding of labor relations and gender from research and...

This text aims at examining how is the daily life organization of the women who live in Cerro line of Lola, Toledo-PR municipality, with the central focus their work routines and forms of sociability set in the home environment. Partial results of the research, through interviews with eighteen women who take part in the Ladies Club or Club Bolãozinho indicate that the forms of sociability dilute the social segment considered family farming, since individuals and families of varying economic...

This study aims to analyze the impact of agricultural modernization on the health of rural women living in Chapada do Apodi -CE, impacted by deterritorialization romoted by the implementation of public policies for irrigation and irrigated fruit growing companies. From theoretical approaches that include women as the protagonists of knowledge and feminist methodologies, appreciated the knowledge situated women, expressed through life stories, focusing on nuances of environmental conflict...

The present research aimed to meet the condition of health of fishers, both inside and in the vicinity of an extractive reserve, their actions for the improvement in local public services, build an initial proposal for creating appropriate EPIs to this productive activity in addition to contributing to the fight against racism and institutionalized discrimination in the institutions and services of the SUS. From a mixt of research and extension it was training needs attended to artisanal...

The debate on women’s work organization in non-indigenous traditional contexts, is the core in the contemporary scene in order to search for ways to develop a sustainability perspective. In this sense, the article presents discussion on the basis of partial results of the research entitled: Organization and Working Women Riparian Amazon: A Study In Communities In Santa Luzia and Saint Lazarus From The Great Lake Manacapuru / AM, whose main objective is the discussion of contributions of the...

This article aims to present and analyze experienced interaction processes in a urban food fair in the city of Santa Maria-RS. Through ethnographic research conducted since 2013, it is observed that the fair is composed of a sociability network woven by merchants and customers, that besides the products, is commercialized knowledge and practices since the economic and social complement each other and bind to the life stories of the characters that make up this scenario. The fair is...

Focusing on processes of collective learning and social organization of rural women motivated by the theme of medicinal plants in different regions of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), this paper discusses the construction of ‘care for others’ as a female role. The starting point is the observation that this ‘care’ seems to be overcoming the family sphere, being extended to the community and even globally, once women broadened their struggles for gender equality and for the recognition of their...

The article presents the ethnographic methodology prioritized for research on gender relations in rural settlements in the region of Araraquara/SP. From the recognition of the places women settled in the social production and reproduction of these social groups, ethnographic research allows a deepening of issues relating to the origin and history of women, as well as expressions of domination, resignation and protagonists. The article expresses more clearly the differences and uniqueness of...

This study was analyzed the occurrence and spatial distribution of the employed women in family agriculture in the Northeast of Brazil. This study showed a scenery of employed women by applying Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). The ESDA technique allowed evaluating the correlation between the municipalities with their neighbors. The Agricultural Census data were analyzed in 2006. The results showed that only 32% of people employed in family agriculture are women. The regions that...

This article analyzes the institutions devoted to rural territorial development present in the territory of the Pontal do Paranapanema Citizenship (west of São Paulo). With the recognition of so-called territorial approach to development, the federal government, especially since 2003, offers a wide range of programs and strategies designed in the country new territories. From a research project funded by CNPq, with allocation of funds of the Territorial Development Secretariat (SDT / MDA),...

The article assumes that rural holds specifics with which it can work other possibilities besides oversizing technology as the only basis for the environmental, social, political and economic development. There is not only one rural society, but rural societies, with their productive specificities linked to the forces of nature and socio-cultural. The approach is focused on the characterization of a new rural as it presupposes the emergence of specific and endogenous forces leading to a...

This study assuming that the peasant knowledge and their management practices can result in multidimensional strategies that constitute the diversity of agroforestry, such as living fences. The richness of species employed as living fences and their potential for other uses were evaluated. A discussion about the implications of usage of said species was included, directed at the conservation of local flora. A settlement area, located in a Permanent Preservation Area on the northern coast of...

Part of a research cycle aimed at rural settlements, this article aims to describe and interpret the considerations of those involved in the process of innovation adoption biodigester established between settlers- adopters of COPAVA located in the settlement Pirituba II and pesquisadores- UNESP diffusers. Through the qualitative approach, we obtained the reports of the key actors in interviews with semi-structured, focused on the knowledge and interest in this type of innovation....

Public policies for the development of rural areas have an important role in the consolidation and permanence of family farmers in the field. The Food Acquisition Program (PAA), aiming to increase the generation of income and price supports to family farmers, strengthen the association and propitiate access to better quality food for people in food insecurity is an important policy in the scope of agriculture family. Within this perspective, we analyze the importance of PAA in the...

The National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) is regulated by Law No. 11.947 / 2009, effective from 2009, which states that at least 30% of the funds transferred by the National Fund for Education Development (ENDF) to municipalities for school feeding should be to purchase food coming directly from family farmers. However, many municipalities and farmers so far not joined the program and those who joined struggling to meet the operational requirements Pnae. Therefore, this article was meant...

The brief first government of Miguel Arraes in Pernambuco (1963-1964) - interrupted by the military coup of 1964 - was marked by the expansion and strengthening of rural workers’ unions. The present paper focuses on exploring how the government fomented the consolidation of these spaces as an alternative of being present in the debates regarding the problems faced by rural populations in Brazil. In a context strongly marked by the presence and action of Peasant Leagues, Arraes had to find...