Gender and sustainable development: protagonist women in food production

Abstract

Urban agriculture initiatives, such as community gardens, excel in mobilizing the community to transform spaces that are often degraded and idle into healthy spaces that provide the most diverse vegetables. The gardens offer a space for coexistence and reconnection with nature, while giving participants autonomy to meet their own needs and improve their quality of life. The incorporation of actions for the production and planting of urban community gardens and healthy cuisine contributes to the promotion of the National Policy on Agroecology and Organic Production, instituted by Decree No. 7.794, august 20, 2012, and the national police of Food and Nutrition, instituted by Decree No. 7,272, of August 25, 2010, which promotes sovereignty and food and nutritional security, the right to adequate and healthy food, structuring and strengthening of sustainable systems and the sustainable use of natural resources. These acts can also serve as an example for the implementation of the National Urban Agriculture Policy. In this direction, the objective of the research is to analyze the historical, economic and sociocultural processes that engender the gender dimension that permeates the issue of sustainable development and the emancipation of women in vulnerable situations. To develop this issue, it is necessary to incorporate women in the context of sustainable development debates. There is a demand from women to achieve legal, political and social equality, through their inclusion in the outline of public policies, which reflects in an improvement in their position in the face of inequality in the relationship between genders, thus allowing their empowerment, reducing vulnerability in that is inserted.