Impacto da actividade agrícola no empoderamento sócio-económico das mulheres na baixa de chicome, distrito de Vilankulo

Abstract

The present work has as general objective, to analyze the impact of the agricultural activity in the socio-economic empowerment of women in downtown Chicome. For the success of this, the questionnaire was used, the bibliographic review as a way to obtain general information related to the theme, in addition to direct non-participant observation in the field. Based in the techniques employed, it was observed that family farming is a concept used to characterize the rural production units, structured in family work, which are identified for the relationship between land, work and family. The transformations resulting from the agrarian scenario Mozambicans affect small rural properties. In this way, there has been constant adoption of different social and economic strategies as a way of responding by women farmers. Among which is the intensification of labor in the properties and female work, which contributes significantly to the survival of the family group. Agricultural activity awakened the community to new forms of production and socio-family relationships, enabling the establishment of new and more equal relations between the sexes. Were changes in social and family relationships in productive units in downtown Chicome, resulting from agricultural activity. The inclusion of women was identified, until then “Invisible”, as an important segment in the production of wealth, as well as in the space of citizenship, in the direction of social justice and the promotion of equality between the sexes. It discusses the repercussions of that activity on the dynamics of matrimonial relations that influenced the valuing and self-esteem of women in the economic and social plan and which culminated in the acquisition of social prestige. Changes envisioned in the family dynamics, from elements material and symbolic, currently make up the lives of these women. It is also worth mentioning the relevance of the “new identity” provided and that generates new social practices in conformation of rural and family farming within that community.