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Estudios sociales. Revista de alimentación contemporánea y desarrollo regional
versión On-line ISSN 2395-9169
Resumen
CALDERON-CISNEROS, Araceli y SANTIZ-SANTIZ, Celfa Iraida. From the backyard to the territory: agroecology as a strategy for the defense of the land and the right to decide among indigenous women in Chiapas. Estud. soc. Rev. aliment. contemp. desarro. reg. [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.60, e221253. Epub 10-Mar-2023. ISSN 2395-9169. https://doi.org/10.24836/es.v32i60.1253.
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.
Palabras llave : regional development, Tseltal women; Feminist political ecology; Community feminism; Amatenango del Valle; Aguacatenango.