Women in family farming: an overview of the profile of family farmers in the state of Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Pimenta Genaro, Ketyline
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Pereira Brandão, André Augusto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista IDEAS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaideas.ufrrj.br/ojs/index.php/ideas/article/view/343
• topic: women – family farming – profile – Rio de Janeiro – social processes; mulheres – agricultura familiar – perfil – Rio de Janeiro – processos sociais

This article, whose object is women family farmers in the state of Rio de Janeiro, brings data from 411 women from 23 municipalities. The objective was to gather and analyze, in general terms, the average profile of these women farmers. The manuscript includes data on: age, marital status, education, number of children, connection with the property, type of production, family income, among others, which, combined with theoretical reflection, allowed us to build some reflections and extrapolations. At first, an overview of family farming in the state is presented, followed by an analysis of the data produced in the field. It was understood that to understand the family farmer is to think about the social processes in which they are inserted. Thus, their general profile is the result of all the transformations that have taken place throughout history, the conditions of their production, type of production, maternity, their marital status, their schooling, among others problematized throughout the text.