Desenvolvimento sustentável e tecnologias coloniais de gênero: propostas da FAO para “mulheres rurais"

Abstract

The objective is to identify the discourses that have been structuring the action strategies instructed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (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. It points out the colonial character of these discourses that 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, ways of living and producing of rural women to the extent that they form actions anchored in the logic of productivity and instrumentalization of women's work.