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Agroforestry Knowledge and Practices: Strategies of Resistance by Peasant and Quilombola Women in Brazil

Identification

Public canonical key

doi:10.3390/conservation5030046

Authors

Renata Borges Kempf · Josiane Carine Wedig · Carolina dos Anjos de Borba

Reported year

2025

Reported language

en

Source type

article

First detected

2026-11-09T19:13:30.951724+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:13:30.951724+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul · Universidade Federal do Paraná · Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

Documentary abstract — original language

This article addresses agroforestry knowledge and practices of peasant and quilombola women. It draws from research using ethnographic methods, conducted in two different Brazilian communities: with peasant women in the municipality of Pinhão, Paraná, Brazil, and with quilombola women in the Quilombo Ribeirão Grande-Terra Seca in the municipality of Barra do Turvo, in the Ribeira Valley, São Paulo, Brazil. This investigation demonstrates the connection between the exploitation of nature and the oppression of women, and it identifies counter-practices that value cooperation and mutual care. It highlights the importance of recovering ancestral knowledge and resisting the rupture with nature imposed by colonialism. The conclusion indicates that these agroforestry practices play a crucial role in the lives of women and in their resistance to the monocultural model and the market economy in both communities studied. In both communities, women play a central role in sustaining agroforestry practices as forms of resistance, care, and cultural preservation. In Pinhão, peasant women uphold biodiversity and traditional knowledge through everyday practices like seed exchange and in the Quilombo Ribeirão Grande-Terra Seca, quilombola women link agroforestry to identity, territorial defense, and Black resistance.

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OPENALEX

W4413908995

DOI

10.3390/conservation5030046

Documentary context

Documentary family

Scholarship

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article

Jurisdictions studied — explicit sources

BR

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OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation5030046
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4413908995

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