WORKING GROUP NUMBER AND NAME (BY EXTENSION) WOMEN PEASANTS AND TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATION: EMPOWERMENT AND AGROECOLOGY

Paula Ester Sebastiany; Edemar Rotta; Carlos Eduardo Ruschel Anes

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Trabalho

DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1448866

Título do Trabalho

WORKING GROUP NUMBER AND NAME (BY EXTENSION) WOMEN PEASANTS AND TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATION: EMPOWERMENT AND AGROECOLOGY

Autores

Paula Ester Sebastiany
Edemar Rotta
Carlos Eduardo Ruschel Anes

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 37 - Violence and Resistances of Rural, Forest, and Water Women: Challenges, Experiences, and Global Perspectives

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

Página do Trabalho

https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1448866-working-group-number-and-name-(by-extension)-women-peasants-and-territorial-transformation--empowerment-and-agro

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

Peasant women; Peasant feminism; Resistance; Empowerment.

Resumo

This study aims to analyze how the actions of the Peasant Women’s Movement (MMC) contribute to territorial transformation and sustainable regional development, considering women’s empowerment and agroecology as central axes. It is based on the understanding that rural women have historically faced productive invisibility, gender inequalities, and limited access to resources, land, and decision-making spaces, which directly affects the social and economic dynamics of rural territories. Methodologically, this is a qualitative bibliographic study grounded in works on gender, empowerment, social movements, peasant feminism, and agroecology. Academic studies and MMC documents were analyzed in order to identify how the organizational and productive practices of peasant women interact with processes of autonomy, resistance, and the construction of alternatives to the hegemonic agribusiness model. The results show that the empowerment promoted by the MMC occurs across multiple dimensions — personal, collective, and structural — strengthening political participation, valuing women’s knowledge, and reshaping social relations in rural areas. Agroecology emerges as a central strategy in this process, linking the production of healthy food, preservation of creole seeds, care for biodiversity, and the construction of solidarity markets. These practices expand women’s economic autonomy and contribute to redefining territory as a space of life, identity, and resistance. It is concluded that the protagonism of peasant women organized within the MMC goes beyond punctual claims, constituting a transformative force capable of promoting inclusive, sustainable, and socially just territorial development, while also challenging patriarchal structures and strengthening new forms of social organization in rural contexts.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
DOI

Como citar

SEBASTIANY, Paula Ester; ROTTA, Edemar; ANES, Carlos Eduardo Ruschel. WORKING GROUP NUMBER AND NAME (BY EXTENSION) WOMEN PEASANTS AND TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATION: EMPOWERMENT AND AGROECOLOGY.. In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1448866-WORKING-GROUP-NUMBER-AND-NAME-(BY-EXTENSION)-WOMEN-PEASANTS-AND-TERRITORIAL-TRANSFORMATION--EMPOWERMENT-AND-AGRO. Acesso em: 11/09/2026