Abstract

COSTA, Maria da Graça; DIMENSTEIN, Magda  and  LEITE, Jáder. Sustainable development and gender technologies: FAO proposals for “rural women”. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.56, pp.190-209.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 2175-1390.

The objective of this article is to identify the discourses that have been structuring the action strategies instructed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in relation to rural women. This is an analysis of discursive practices based on FAO reference documents on gender and agriculture produced between 2011 and 2021. The analysis of the documents points out that they are based on the definitions of sustainable development and gender empowerment. The colonial character of these discourses is highlighted, which have served as a conceptual basis for public policies aimed at rural women in the countries of the Global South. It is concluded that these proposals can have a great impact on the dynamics, on the ways of living and producing of rural women insofar as they conform actions anchored in the logic of productivity and instrumentalization of women’s work.

Keywords : Rural women; Decolonial feminism; Feminization of poverty; Family farming; Gender public policies.

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