Women that bloom the Brazilian Northeastern semi arid: stories of woman producers supported by IFAD projects in Brazil

Abstract

This booklet presents experiences of women (individual and collective) who have struggled to have their work recognized and valued, facing patriarchy and everyday sexism, and showing they can do any activity, generate income, change their realities and their respective communities. Women who fought, reinvented and encouraged others to build a world with freedom, justice, autonomy and equality between men and women. These are experiences of good practices of rural women in the search for income generation, sustainability and nature conservation, political-social participation and coping with gender inequality and all forms of violence against women.