PARTICIPATION AND FEMININE PROTAGONISM IN THE PROMOTION PROGRAMS FOR FAMILY AGRICULTURE IN THE PAULISTA INTERIOR

Abstract

In the rural settlements of Araras and Jaboticabal, women associated in the São Paulo State Organization of Settled and Quilombola Women (OMAQUESP) are protagonists in participating in Government Support Programs for Family Farming. In this sense, the objective of this work is to demonstrate, from the actions performed by them in the Food Acquisition Program (PAA), National School Feeding Program (PNAE) and the Paulista Agriculture Program of Social Interest (PPAIS), how they build their struggles against invisibility and the recognition of their work, creating strategies that promote the transformation of their rural communities. Through interviews, fieldwork and bibliographic references, it was also observed that the performance of women, in charge of these programs, contributes to the diversity of agricultural production, in realities such as the State and the municipalities of Araras and Jaboticabal, characterized by dominance of agribusiness commodity production.