Da produção de alimentos saudáveis à geração de autonomia e conhecimentos

Abstract

The study starts from the concern with the peasant's invisibility in food production for the sustainability of her family. It seeks subsidies in history to understand the social place of women, renegade to the background in capitalist society. The struggle present in the Peasant Women's Movement (MMC) uses the methodology of the Agroecological Booklet, which records the production of food in agroecological yards. One strategy is demonstrated, proven with data, that the same foods consumed add value to families. Perspective of the visibility of women's work, establishing a link between the history of the struggle for recognition and its relationship with food production, generating a more sustainable context and advances in public policies, ie the objective of the work. The same goes for issues such as agroecology and agribusiness, class relations, female empowerment, women's invisibility, technology in the broad sense. Thus, it produces an analysis from a compilation of data that details a diversity of products, becomes virtually self-sustaining as families participate in food, and an experience that was already being successfully developed also became a reality. four (4) families investigated, mainly improving the diet and giving greater importance to the role of women in the family, with this important action.