The Role of the Woman Farmer in the Emergency of New Ruralities: Notes from the Organic Farming

The Role of the Woman Farmer in the Emergency of New Ruralities: Notes from the Organic Farming

Karen Follador Karam

The main pretension in this work is to get to know and to recognize the role of thewoman farmer in the new productive processes that update the place of the rural in thecontemporary societies. The starting point is the organic farming system. One interests to identifythe strategies adopted by the family farming for increasing and supporting ways of living therural world. At the same time, one interests to identify the possibilities to make the rural space –in the context of the modern societies – visible. In this context, one researched the organicfarming in the urban area of Curitiba (RMC). One analyzed who are the farmers involved in theprocess, and inside of it, one tried to indicate what is the role of the woman farmer, from theproductive process to the necessary sociability to keep an “alive rural world” where the organicfarming appears as a strategy.

2004

Agricultura orgânica, Ruralidade, mulher agricultora

Revista Estudos Feministas

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Women. Feminism