Women and agroecology in urban areas

Abstract

This work is a result of the Women and Urban Agriculture project: Food security and conscious
consumption, carried out in the community of Passarinho, Recife, which sought to identify the
profile of the urban farmer, discuss the socioeconomic and environmental problems of the
community and rescue the ancestral knowledge of women From agroecology. As a result, a
questionnaire was applied to women in order to obtain the data for the discussions on agroecological
and feminist urban agriculture, as well as to reveal the knowledge present in the quintals.
The data obtained showed agriculture in women’s lives , Especially those living in peripheries,
allowing visibilization and valorization of domestic work, the transmission of past practices
between generations and revealing agroecology and feminism as a means of democratizing
spaces in an inclusive and sustainable way and questioning inequalities and oppressions.This work is a result of the Women and Urban Agriculture project: Food security and conscious
consumption, carried out in the community of Passarinho, Recife, which sought to identify the
profile of the urban farmer, discuss the socioeconomic and environmental problems of the
community and rescue the ancestral knowledge of women From agroecology. As a result, a
questionnaire was applied to women in order to obtain the data for the discussions on agroecological
and feminist urban agriculture, as well as to reveal the knowledge present in the quintals.
The data obtained showed agriculture in women’s lives , Especially those living in peripheries,
allowing visibilization and valorization of domestic work, the transmission of past practices
between generations and revealing agroecology and feminism as a means of democratizing
spaces in an inclusive and sustainable way and questioning inequalities and oppressions.