Estudo de caso da horta comunitária do coletivo de mulheres do assentamento Cristina Alves em Itapecuru Mirim – MA

Abstract

Recently there is an important appreciation of the experiences lived in rural communities as well as the concern about the production of a healthy diet linked to the conservation of the agroecosystem. This discussion also includes the visibility of the work of peasant women in the process of agricultural production. Given these aspects, this work was developed through the interest of the Women's Collective to disseminate practices for improving soil quality in their Community Garden located in the Cristina Alves Settlement, this being an agrarian reform area linked to the MST. To this end, the objectives were specifically to enable the Collective to identify the soil present in the Vegetable Garden, to promote the use of practices that restore the balance of the agroecosystem and to cooperate with the strengthening of the social structure of the Collective of Women that operates in the Community Vegetable Garden. At the same time, this research sought in participatory methodologies to link scientific knowledge to popular knowledge of peasants, as well as to understand the context in which they are inserted. Thus, a qualitative research was conducted based on data from interviews with semi-structured script collected with women and men who coordinate the Women's Collective. From the observation of the daily life of these subjects together with a participatory methodological approach, the contribution of the role of peasant women to overcome the existing challenges succeeded