Agroecologia e feminismo: empoderamento das camponesas Flores de Ximenes

Abstract

The present research was carried out in the settlement of Valdir Ximenes, located in the municipality of Barreiros / PE, with the general objective of understanding how the rural women of the locality created the Flores de Ximenes group and how this action affected their lives and their families. This group had an impact on the daily lives of women farmers, in the sphere of private life more closely related to the domestic space, to their insertion in public life, linked to academic events and social movements. This collective perspective transformed the way of looking at and using local natural resources, established new relationships with the local flora and changed the way of producing, this space will be the central point of the discussions that will build this CBT. The work was conducted through semi-structured interviews and free lists, based on the research-action method and horizontally, always dialoguing with the beneficiaries, vocalizing their desires and frustrations and valuing their traditional knowledge.