The relationship between women and the earth in the journal agriculturas: a content analysis

Abstract

This paper is the result of a partnership between the library and the RD&I sector of Embrapa Meio Ambiente through the content analysis method of articles of the journal Agriculturas. The search comprised to understand the role and importance of women, in the view of authors, and the main activities that they develop. The majority of articles show that women act in the productive unity with specific activities, and also, with handcraft, besides other functions equally noteworthy. They have sensibility to work respecting the agroecology principles where the practices are expressed on the developed activities in the production unity. On the articles of the journal Agriculturas, the women perform the role of “seed custodians”, also, the keeper of local culture and many times they are on the center of the decisions about what to plant, how to plant and where to sell the production. Therefore, working in conjunction with the Library has allowed the development of this research, highlighting the method of content analysis to identify articles about the role of women in the field.