Neide Maria de Almeida Pinto

Difusão de tecnologia e sexismo nas Ciências Agrárias

This study examines the perception prevalent in rural areas of technology as a product related to the male universe. Bring this research data that show the great distance of rural womens access to technological knowledge, produced and distributed within the university, which is directed to the improvement of quality of life and possibilities to increase the generation of income in rural areas, but the which they still have access insignificant. Worked on this research with the collection of data obtained in courses offered during the Week of the Farmer, over four years, from 2004 to 2007, correlating to each of the frequency of courses offered to men and women to them. We conclude that it perpetuates sexism technological models in the management of production units in rural areas as the woman in a hierarchical condition of complementarity and not as co-manager of the plant family, a condition which restricts access to information and expertise, management, and organization of environmental groups.

Desigualdades de gênero na universidade pública:a prática dos docentes das ciências agrárias em estudo

This study has aimed to analyze gender inequality among professors of Centro de Ciencias Agrarias (CCA – Agricultural Science Center), Universidade Federal de Vicosa (UFV), to identify the factors that could influence this gender bias. We sought not only to describe gender inequalities in the spaces occupied by men and women in undergraduate and graduate programs of CCA/UFV, but also to understand the mechanisms through which gender differences were perpetuated. To this end, we used the Lattes Curriculum of professors as a source of information for the analysis of the variables that showed different patterns between professors of both sexes who worked in the graduate programs in the field of agricultural science at UFV. The analysis of data on the distribution by sex also in undergraduate courses of CCA aimed to present a comprehensive overview of gender configurations at all academic levels: undergraduate and graduate education, as well as faculty. The big clue that guided the final conclusions of this research was the perception that professors’ original link was related to the guidance standards set by professors in the graduate program.

Padrões de consumo no campo: as transformações no modo de vida dos rurais

A producao de sementes dentro do sistema agroecologico envolve grandes diferencas com relacao aos atuais sistemas agroindustriais. Assim, foi realizado um diagnostico do cultivo orgânico nas propriedades de integrantes do grupo de agricultura orgânica “grupo Seriema” em Laranja da Terra/ES com o objetivo de conhecer as praticas agricolas do grupo, as culturas e estrategias de cultivo adotadas por seus membros, para assim definir-se caminhos para incrementar a producao de sementes pelo grupo, promovendo sua autonomia produtiva. As perguntas buscaram identificar a experiencia de cada produtor no sistema orgânico, as culturas mais plantadas, as especies das quais compravam sementes, alem de identificar o modo como as sementes eram produzidas, o processo de selecao dos genotipos para o cultivo, a forma de armazenagem e de tratamento dado as sementes. Pelos resultados conclui-se que ha uma grande diversificacao dos cultivos nas propriedades visitadas e que os agricultores carecem de conhecimentos em tecnologias de cultivo dentro do sistema orgânico, bem como em processos de selecao de plantas e producao de sementes.