Objective:

The links between agro-ecology and the processes of land and territory defense was analyzed based on the experience of organized indigenous women in Chiapas.

Methodology:

A feminist methodology was implemented based on community workshops, interviews, and visits to home gardens by 27 women, using a feminist political ecology and communitarian feminism approach.

Results:

It was observed that women have not improved their conditions of access to land, which is still male property. The kitchen gardens and backyards are spaces where they carry out agro-ecological practices closely linked to their traditional knowledge; but family plots or community lands are managed with a heavy use of agrochemicals.

Limitations:

The temporality and size of the case analyzed is very short in front the historical problem of land exclusion for women.

Conclusions:

Despite not generating quantitative changes, agro-ecology strengthens women individually and collectively; their agro-ecological backyards maintain knowledge and resources for peasant life and constitute a material basis for the defense of the land-territory from everyday spaces.